The last time
Alavés
scored at the Mestalla,
Valencia
were league champions and
Gracia
and
Calleja
were teammates at Villarreal. Almost 20 years without the victory escaping and the streak is just broken when Valencia most needs to score points that allow them to finish this eternal season without too much suffering. Only the faith and the flashes of de
Guedes
, added to
Gayà's
conviction
, rescued a point in the 89th minute when the Vitorians were already seeing each other with the three in the bag.
Valencia did the math before jumping onto the pitch. Cala's goal, football things, for Cádiz's draw against
Valladolid
gave them a break, but only a victory saved them from being entangled in the last gasps of the League. The Alavés, despite the Calleja effect, could not allow any oversights either and in the Mestalla it was as far from Jaume as capable of containing the Valencian waves.
Gracia did not speculate and launched her team with all the artillery, lest they even allow her to finish the season.
Maxi
,
Gameiro
and especially
Guedes
. The Portuguese has emerged in recent weeks to grab the team's flag and lead the attack. From the middle point or the left lane, he offered himself, faced, was associated with the Uruguayan and with Gameiro and even bit in the recovery. As if he had drunk a magic potion, the Portuguese is showing himself very capable of supporting a Valencia that threatens but does not strike. And that is a problem.
On matchday 32, the Valencians are still not capable of generating a fluid attack game and even less to find the cracks in the block that Calleja has built.
Carlos Soler
is too alone in that responsibility
, multiplied by
Racic's
doubts
and condemned to take refuge in the talent that was on the left wing. Despite the fact that Alavés did not give more than to use himself to maintain his solidity, in the first against they set up,
Jota scored offside
. A warning that was not repeated in the entire first part but that reminded Gracia's of their fragility.
Valencia amassed the duel, worse the game only lightened the game Guedes when he returned from the dressing room with a low and perfect center that walked through Pacheco's goal without finding a finisher. The left is the only solution and that's where the second disallowed goal of the game came. Gayà looked for the Portuguese, who invited Maxi to fight but did not give up in the search for rejection to serve him to Gameiro. Cuadra Fernández saw on the monitor that the Uruguayan started the play behind the Alava defense.
The scare spurred the Vitorians, who forced Jaume to fly to deflect a semi-ball from
Joselu
and lamented a high shot and
Edgar
to center from Tomás Pina.
A shot from Soler to the back of Laguardia and a breakaway by Pere Pons that Gayà stopped, started the round-trip skirmishes.
Alavés was the winner taking advantage of a foul that Laguardia combed and
Guidetti
hunted
to catapult.
Far from sinking, Guedes reappeared, this time on the right, letting Maxi test Pacheco and stopping the goal was pushed by captain Gayà to the back of the net.
A point as fair as it is useless.
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