Valencia is already a team that asks for the time, exhausted from fighting against a fate that eludes them.
The season is becoming a permanent ordeal in the bland middle of the table and with all kinds of misfortunes and controversies that he tries to overcome with more faith than football and success.
Once again, he had to grit his teeth to survive in the Mestalla against a Real that was enough with having patience and success to have a team against the ropes that is not even the shadow of the one that has taken the witness as champion of Cup.
It has not been an easy week in the Valencian dressing room, immersed in the defense of his teammate Diakhaby, who jumped into the starting eleven as if nothing had happened.
Concentrated, he hugged Paulista just before the start and in the first Valencian corner he already tried to finish off a ball with which to turn the page to what happened at Carranza.
The Frenchman is satisfied that his complaint serves so that no player will ever again have the suspicion of a racist insult on a football field.
What happened in the Mestalla for many minutes is not born of a mental blow, but rather points back to the problems that the team drags, disguised as a local in the last four games, but stripped by the Basque team in two plays.
The brand new champion was not uncomfortable in the game.
He tried Jaume more than he needed from Remiro, but he was swimming comfortably in a truce that was broken after half an hour.
Gorosabel's hands in the area served an advantage on a tray that Valencia could not waste.
As there is nothing easy for this team, Carlos Soler, infallible from the penalty spot, this time he threw it out.
From area to area the party traveled, this time without the Real erring.
From the dispute between Isak and Gayà in the area, Oyarzabal came out the winner, who left the ball free for Guevara to put a left-footed shot adjusted to the post that Jaume could not reach.
The blow gave little to the locals, who let the score increase at the edge of the break.
Then the figure of Paulista emerged, for the good and for the hand.
First he believed himself to be a central defender of yesteryear, capable of driving the ball, and his bad pass was hunted by Guevara to enable Isak and, after getting rid of Diakhaby and taking advantage of Jaume's half-out, scoring the 0-2.
The match was opened again from the penalty spot and this time Valencia did not waste them.
The Brazilian center-back wanted to make up for his mistake, looking to head a corner kick into the air, but he hit the ball from the ground just before Carlos Fernández stepped on him.
Pizarro Gómez pointed the 11 meters and, this time, Daniel Wass did not miss.
Bailiff sought to protect himself and close the victory with three centrals while Gracia looked for a lung on his bench.
He didn't need it.
Gabriel Paulista had a thorn in it and flew to head a Guedes center and make the tie.
However, this Valencia is impossible not to complicate life.
The chances of a comeback were complicated when Maxi Gómez protested a yellow to Pizarro and ended up seeing a direct red.
La Real turned to take advantage of a superiority that Januzaj and Bautista could reflect in the result.
The locals barely had any air left to grasp a point as useless as it was necessary that the Real could no longer take away from them.
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