Do not get the
Valencia
doldrums.
No way.
Not even when a match in a final suit is put in his face despite being born with difficulties.
The reasons for the decline of this team are on the way to be infinite and to blush more than one section of the club while no one seems to find the formula to stop a decline that scares.
With 15 points, seven consecutive games without winning,
not one victory in the month of December
and flirting with relegation.
This is how Valencia ends 2020.
The duel against
Granada
was a reflection of all that.
The Andalusians took the three points with the right deserved, being able to take advantage of the suicide committed by
Javi Gracia's team
.
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They prowled the area from the start and believed they had a prize in a shot by
Kenedy
that Jaume, once again, did not see.
It seemed like the best start for a team that is beginning to recover from the overexertion of splicing one season with another in its European debut.
The VAR put their feet on the ground by canceling the goal due to a previous slap from Foulquier to Jason, one of the most active and less successful Valencia players all afternoon.
With the score at zero, he began to fuel the Valencian attack, without
Maxi Gómez
and entrusted to
Gameiro
, who needed three clear chances to score.
Two were taken out by Rui Silva and in the third the doubts gave Foulquier an advantage.
The next one no longer failed.
From a theft by Ezquerdo, the association with Soler, Guedes and Cheryshev was born, a center emerged that the Frenchman finished off to put the team ahead.
With all the problems that weigh down Valencia, the goal was a ball of oxygen before the drowning that causes looking at the classification.
However, they do not have an instant of peace.
After
Jason
squandered the opportunity to extend the lead and just before the break, Kenedy takes a direct free kick that Gameiro deflects on goal.
It was time to row again.
Granada returned with momentum from the dressing room and the difficulties were already sensed.
He tried Puertas with a center-kick, Suárez got Diakhaby in trouble and
Foulquier
crashed a ball into the post in a play in which he slipped almost to the goal line.
With the defense shaking, Soler was not enough to contain Granada's growing game.
Even less when in just four minutes Valencia committed suicide.
Jason saw the second yellow for a push to Domingos Duarte without the ball in play and
Guedes
the direct red for insulting Cordero Vega in the protests for a foul again by the Portuguese defender.
The task of holding the tie with nine players was daunting, but no one fled from it.
A respite gave
Duarte's red card
, who as a divine punishment went to the dressing room for an unnecessary entrance to Manu Vallejo.
Valencians' legs did not tremble.
Without suffocation, and with only Yunus, Vallejo and Soler in attack, they tried to look for the Granada goal as a means of not being in too much trouble.
And then another of Valencia's hindrances appeared: the bench, the reinforcements of the second row.
While Gracia used the very young
Koba
, the umpteenth youth squad, Diego Martínez put
Jorge Molina
on the field
, who ended up finishing off a Soro center and giving him all three points.
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