Narration: This is how we live the game
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Bleed and carry on.
Valencia is not willing to stay in rubble.
Under the collapsed pillars it struggles to emerge clinging to figures like Gayà and Carlos Soler who augur a new leadership, a new time.
In full construction, without yet having a clear idea of how he wants to grow, he bled a Real Madrid that was the victim of his gross mistakes in the area on a historic night.
Three penalties were his sentence and spurred a spring Valencia with more faith than football that did not hesitate to bury them from eleven meters.
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Zidane expected a rival who would burn the ball even at home, flat and prone to failure.
With some nuance, it was what was found in the first part.
Without Casemiro, it was the night of leaving Modric in charge, assisted by Valverde, and releasing the reins to Isco.
The doubts were on the sides.
That's right.
He launched Asensio to fight Gayà, thus trying to protect Lucas Vázquez, and only left the loose end of how Marcelo would respond to the young and very fast Yunus Musah.
It was soon seen that the roles were reversed.
Madrid found their best attacking argument in the Marcelo-Vinicius-Benzema connection, and Valencia repeatedly punished the right bank with an offensive and cheeky Gayà in front of Zidane's gaze.
Even so, the white team was growing, pushing towards Jaume's area.
Asensio tried with a shot that stopped the Valencian goal and took advantage of every loss of a Valencia that was released but in a very tender way.
Soler assumed responsibility for the game, aided by Kang In's talent and shielded by the Serbian Racic.
It is up to this new engine room for Gracia's team to gain height in this League, with impudence and quick transitions that scare their rivals.
But it did not work out as expected and Madrid managed to make the game slide in their favor without too much demand until they faced them in the 23rd minute.
Valencia fulfilled its blackest script and conceded a goal for the sixth time this season before half an hour.
Benzema, at the peak of the area, leaned on Marcelo on the side of the area and the Brazilian returned the ball to him so that he could place it where Jaume did not reach.
The scoreboard reflected who was in charge of the Mestalla.
Soler takes one of the penalties.
However, if Javi Gracia's team is trained in one thing, it is to navigate against the current.
No more obstacles can be encountered this season.
He never left the party and conspired so that if he had to die, it would be elegant.
Courage became flesh in Gayà, who tirelessly searched for Lucas Vázquez's failure, until he found it.
He took a penalty for hands that Gil Manzano saw clearly but had a lot of intrigue.
Courtois saved Carlos Soler's launch, the rejection sent him back to the post and Yunus flocked him.
The VAR told the referee that the Englishman and Lucas Vázquez had entered the area before hitting and Soler repeated a serene launch that, this time, the Belgian could not stop.
From that moment, Madrid was diluted
By the break, he had lost to the point.
Racic put a deep pass to Maxi that the Uruguayan directed to goal and Varane helped to enter before a defeated Courtois.
Another error that, although the Mestalla was empty, weighed like a slab.
Not even going through the dressing room helped to wake up Real Madrid, which began to show signs of impotence.
A kick to the stick from Kang In warned them that the night could get even darker.
Gayà still had gas to search the area over and over again and filter balls like the one Maxi would have caught had he not been swept away by Marcelo.
Again Soler on the penalty spot and Valencia with two goals ahead that would have driven his parish crazy as much as the last victory in April 2019. Mestalla is not a field of their own for the whites, who have a victory in the last seven years.
Neither could Zidane's men react to the blow, because a very clear hands from Ramos and another penalty came from which the VAR warned Gil Manzano.
Courtois also could not stop Soler's shot tight to his right post.
The midfielder, inspired by the plasticity of Mendieta's throws, closed a glorious night with a hat trick from eleven meters.
The nightmare for Real Madrid lasted a few more minutes despite the comprehensive reform that Zidane sought.
Valencia had shown themselves to be a vulnerable team at the start of the season, but it was impossible not to leave every last drop of blood to defend a historic result that relaunches a team that was too lost in the table.
There are not too many opportunities to unstitch Madrid, and less from a penalty.
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