In Coroatá, a city of 70,000 inhabitants of the Brazilian state of Maranhao, they will be attentive to what happens tonight in Mestalla in Valencia-Alavés. There he grew up and was named an honorary citizen Marcos André, the first footballer in two years for whom Peter Lim has paid a transfer (8 million).
It happens that in Coroatá, as in Valencia, they are waiting to know if their little Marcos makes his debut today. The Brazilian, who already trained yesterday with Bordalás – with Guedes acting as a cicerone – is ready to go and has asked for the same time. AND if it were for Bordalás, to play without blinking. But first you have to be registered and, for this, due to the quota of non-EU citizens, the exit must be specified Kang-in Lee, which is on track -with Mallorca as one of the destination ports-, but the ‘fringes’ get mixed up in nothing and they end up making it up for you.
Alavés also arrives at Mestalla with new faces to present in society: Miazga, Sylla and De la Fuente. But they know for sure that they will not play at first. Calleja, who has started the League in an inverse way to how it started last year in Vitoria (two days, zero points), warned that he would only introduce a change in his eleven and it will be that of Javi López for the sanctioned Rubén Duarte. Calleja, who more than earned his two-year contract, refuses to sound the alarm for two games.
Life in Valencia passes with unusual calm. Even with alegrías like Marcos André's or the call up by Luis Enrique de Carlos Soler. Obviously until Tuesday any shock can come in the form of a sale, although Bordalás is confident that his front-line ‘soldiers’, including Guedes and Wass, will continue.
So the black and white face the visit of Alavés with the aim of going to the national team break with 7 points in their locker, something that has not happened after the first three days of the League for seven seasons, in the first of the Lim era with Nuno on the bench. The only debate in the eleven: Mamardashivili or Cillessen.