- Chronicle: Eibar gives Valencia a bath of attitude
46 points, seven games to play and seven points away with fourth place, only four more than on the same day last season, when Valencia ate it up to bite to chase the Champions place on the last day. Why couldn't it happen again? It is the question that they insist on moving publicly from the locker room when they themselves know that everything has changed. That Valencia died on September 12 and the family they forged is falling apart.
The team has returned with nerves on the surface and with the same problems as when the pandemic shut us down. As if there had not been a three-month pause for reflection. The improvement is not even guessed. Not from the empty bleachers, not on TV, not on the grass. Celades has not managed to improve Valencia, complicated at the beginning of his career by the inherited ribbon, but he has diluted its essence without more result than accompanying the explosion of Ferran Torres and the mirage of the classification for eighth Champions League closed with a ridicule and a biological pump. Even in that the Catalan coach has had a bad footing.
The cold numbers still do not allow evaluating it, because they do not understand dynamics, but soccer does and indicates that the Valencian player is bordering on the disaster with a man who seems to have lost authority and a club that accompanies him in the distance, more busy accounting for what will stay on the road.
In the midst of improper games, with and without VAR, and draws, victories and defeats, Celades explodes the locker room that has to save him. Maxi rebels after beating Osasuna for always being the first change and they almost reach their hands; minutes before Guedes had made a fuss in the stands to replace him in his best game and Diakhaby , now injured, not only heard his coach point out to him in public for his achievement of absurd penalties, but he took pains to deny the leak to a commentator that she wept as she watched the video of her gross mistakes. Codes that a dressing room does not forgive.
The captains (Parejo, Rodrigo, Gayà, Jaume and Kondogbia) have raised their hands to ask for peace and the club, through the sports director César Sánchez , arrived incognito from January, has interceded so that Maxi's attitude does not send him to your home forever and stay on financial penalty. Of course, Celades punished him with the bench at Eibar. However, Guedes placed him where he likes best, in a playmaker where he was lost. Differences that everyone takes note of.
Not being in the Champions League means a 100 million decrease in income in accounts touched since before the coronavirus, and that pressure is felt in all the levels of the club, from the presidency, watched with a magnifying glass with Peter Lim , to the dressing room, which does not see foundations in the project.
Will Valencia be able to remove Celades? If the good results and the unconditional support of the squad did not serve to save Marcelino , moving away from the goal and showing diminished authority may not be the sentence for the Catalan in a club where the decisions are one-person and fickle.
Soccer is goals and victories, but also moods that push performance above expected. Neither one nor the other have been seen to Valencia in this patched competition. Unable to keep a line, he goes from euphoria to depression without anyone making them believe in what they do. That is why the 46 points of this season with seven days to go seem an insuperable distance today.
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