• Classification. 32nd day

The derby of the Ceramic Stadium served for Villarreal and Valencia to exchange the objectives with which they faced the 11 days against the clock with which the championship will close. Those of Albert Celades dreamed of returning to that Champions League from which Atalanta threw them based on goals in the midst of the outbreak of the pandemic and those of Javier Calleja , to return to that Europe that they have missed this season. But it turns out that Castellón, the fittest team in the return from the competition with Real Madrid, sleep just three points from fourth place, which Valencia already sees eight move away. [Narration and statistics (2-0)]

And is that the break in LaLiga has been better for some teams than others. Villarreal has done wonderfully. Calleja's team, which was in the process of de-escalation of the European positions with three consecutive defeats before the parenthesis, has returned with a completely renewed image. Quite the opposite of a Valencia that has only accelerated the decomposition process that it had already entered.

All this was evident in the Ceramic Stadium, where the yellow team passed over its rival as a steamroller. Those of Celades melted like a cube in the hot afternoon before a very solid Villarreal who handled the game as he pleased and who soon opened the scoring.

Calamitous in defense

About to reach the quarter of an hour, Paco Alcácer exhibited that murderous instinct that he began to polish when he was young in Paterna with a precise volley to cross the ball out of Cillessen's reach , after a no less precise pass from Gerard Moreno , who brushed the second with a head butt that crashed into the post just minutes later.

There were no signs of reaction in a very flat Valencia, without overflowing above despite Rodrigo's work , and dire in defense. Nothing remains of that leathery group that Marcelino forged . Not even the return of Gabriel Paulista has managed to provide more security to a rear guard that was portrayed in the second goal, shortly before the break.

While Cazorla started the movement in search of the ball, he started from Asenjo , Paulista and Guillamón were as if it wasn't with them. The Asturian waited for the ball in the front and cushioned it with the glove on his foot to leave it on a tray for Gerard, who signed the second with another beautiful volley. Just a minute earlier, Cillessen had lowered a shot from Albiol after a corner kick.

Without wasting strength

With the baton of Cazorla and the mobility of Gerard and Chukwueze in attack, Villarreal ran at ease . And if he did no more damage, it was because he realized that he did not need it and it was not a matter of wasting strength in this express league final.

Celades wanted to do something to improve the poor image of his team and got Guedes to start the second half. Beyond a slight improvement in the early stages of the restart, Valencia left La Cerámica practically the same as it had left Ipurua days ago, without shooting between the three poles.

If anything, it could be aimed at a Parejo shot from the front that Albiol diverted to a corner, because Asenjo's stoppage in a heads-up with Gameiro was invalidated for offside. Poor baggage to aspire to be among the top four.

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