1-2 in Mestalla Narration and statistics
Classification Madrid, solo leader
Davide Ancelotti A football 'sick' in the shadow of Carlo
Impossible to consider Real Madrid dead. Never. It is a maxim that rivals can already burn. Against all odds,
Carlo Ancelotti's team
competes to the last breath. It does not overwhelm, true, but it leads rivals to exhaustion. In two crazy minutes at the Mestalla he was able to turn a scoreboard that Valencia had chiseled with effort and overcoming all obstacles ... until they gave
Karim Benzema
and
Vinicius
a break
, capable of knocking down their work.
The co-leaders need a challenge against which to measure the seriousness of the intentions.
Real Madrid is another rival with a pedigree in an atmosphere that has drowned them in the last two seasons.
Valencia, a giant that would make more followers of
José Bordalás'
faith
.
Despite the painful defeat, he succeeded.
The calendar had been so benevolent with both that a test was necessary to determine how Ancelotti has printed his stamp on the white team and the resurrected Alicante coach who came of age who did not see himself contesting the head of the table hand in hand with the whites.
Injury carousel
An intense match was being drawn, with promising duels. Valencia, concentrated, tried to bother the opponent's ball exit. The genes of yesteryear have resurfaced and allow Mestalla to venture a silk truce after too long waiting for a good year to come. Vigilances on
Eden Hazard
and an eye on Vinicius Jr, who scored a slalom between six Valencian players to run into his villain of the night, the Paraguayan
Omar Alderete
, who also survived a Hazard roulette by showing gallons. The Belgian multiplied in a reconstructed band without
Gayà
, with
Foulquier
demanded and
Hugo Duro
in the aid. From his escape,
Fede Valverde's
shot was born
which warmed
Mamardashvili's
hands
.
The duel beat without an owner, but the effervescence disappeared to the rhythm of a carousel of injuries.
Carlos Soler
, captain and soul of Valencia,
fell
.
With tears in his eyes he had to leave the game in which he has scored in the last two seasons.
He was not the only one.
In a race with Vinicius,
Thierry Correia
also broke down.
The Bordalás team had to patch up the bands in just 20 minutes.
But the evil of the injuries also attacked Madrid and
Lucas Vázquez
had to replace Carvajal with molestations in the right calf.
Another game began that took time to accelerate again.
It was activated by Hugo Duro, who failed to pick up a low center from
Maxi Gómez
with
Thibaut Courtois
beaten, and
Casemiro
responded
.
Madrid walked wanting to knead the game and got stuck.
Proof of this is that Benzema barely kicked in a stadium where he scored in the last three league visits.
Mamardashvili's nerves
Only with talent pills did he force a Valencia installed in survival. He needed to breathe and the rival gave them encouragement. Then it appeared Courtois. With time up, he caught a header from
Gabriel Paulista
, but when he came back from the dressing room he still had more work to do. He took a shot from point-blank range again from Hugo Duro, saw a wall go high with
Gonçalo Guedes
and also how a right hand from the Portuguese rose over his crossbar. Ancelotti had to shake the bell to wake up his men and look at the bench looking for
Eduardo Camavinga
and
Rodrygo
. Valencia, even injured, was resisting.
Madrid tried to react, flat, unable to create more than naive shots even from Benzema that did not disturb a nervous Mamardashvili. If on the bench he drew up a plan like the one that gave them victory at San Siro, it was erased with a stroke of the pen when a very long change of game by Foulquier was headed by Lucas Vázquez to give Hugo Duro an advantage, who, at the third time, did not err. He erased in his debut that 'He played on Hugo Duro' which was a song in the 2019 Cup.
Real Madrid wanted to wake up by reactivating their midfield more with the entry of
Isco
and
Luka Jovic
, all to complicate
Daniel Wass
and
Hugo Guillamón
, more comfortable than they had dreamed of.
The rival, carried away by the collective euphoria and the scoreboard, was just strong.
Bordalás saw it and tried to shore up what would be his first victory against the whites, but it was not enough.
Benzema appeared, gave him a golden assist from Vinicius and took advantage of the Valencian goalkeeper's fledgling when Mestalla no longer expected the forceful response from a team that never gives up.
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