The Esmeraldas side closes the month of October with three star appearances in the LaLiga campaign.
Valencia ended their losing streak of seven games without winning by beating Villarreal 2-0 at the Mestalla with a goal in the final moments of the first half from Hugo Guillamón and another from Carlos Soler, from a penalty, in the second, that expanded the bad dynamics of the Castellón team, which now has four games without winning, with three defeats and one draw in extremis last day.
Bordalás and Emery tried to surprise each other, the Valencian coach varying his tactical drawing, with a 4-3-3, while the Basque coach placed Moi Gómez as a false nine. But beyond the tactical novelties, the two teams offered an anodyne first half that was only encouraged in the final stretch.
Valencia, with the slab of seven games without winning behind him, took care and worried about defending and not leaving spaces for Villarreal, which he achieved successfully, since the people of Castellón had possession but could not find a way to put them in trouble to Cillessen.
By contrast, Valencia, very sunk in their field, hardly contributed anything offensively. Guedes, as a benchmark at the attack point, did not find support in the bands of Hélder Costa and André, who were very focused on covering the rises of the yellow team’s sides.
Between yawns and the usual chants against the Valencian president, Anil Murthy, and the main shareholder Peter Lim, the minutes passed until at 40, in a corner kick, the full-back Serge Aurier finished almost in the small area, but his shot found a magnificent stop of reflexes from Cillessen that avoided the goal.
Almost then and after a throw-in, Guillamón created an internship out of nowhere in which he beat Rulli with a subtle Vaseline to overtake Valencia shortly before the end of the first half.
Pervis Estupiñán was part of Villarreal’s starting eleven, accumulating his third appearance as a star in October. His reappearance in the stellar role of the Yellow Submarine, however, was overshadowed with the Che team’s 1-0 score for not following Guillamón after the throw-in. “That marked the game for him. In attack, it did not contribute much either “, summarizes a chronicle of the newspaper As.
Estupiñán was replaced in the 71st minute by attacker Alberto Moreno.
Emery reacted after the break. The experiment of the false new is over and he took out Boulayé Dia as an offensive reference, also giving rest to a misguided Yeremy by Samu Chukwueze. His team further intensified their dominance and presence in attack, but they ran into a very firm Valencia in defense and who sought to sentence the counter against an increasingly open rival.
Albiol avoided another local goal under the goal, in the 75th minute, after a gallop by Guedes, who dodged Rulli on his way out, but his shot, already very heeled, was taken by the Villarreal captain. Just a minute later Alberto Moreno committed a clear penalty on Foulquier that Carlos Soler transformed into 2-0 that ended the game.
Villarreal, despite eight minutes of added time, could not and did not know how to disturb Valencia, which recovered its best defensive version in this regional duel to relish a victory a month and a half later. (D)
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