Soler and Guedes leave Levante without resurrection

A double by Gonçalo Guedes and another by Carlos Soler allowed Valencia to consolidate its European dream by turning its derby around in the field of a Levante who dreamed of resuscitating from the last position of the classification when in the first half he put on the ropes to those of José Bordalás with two goals in two minutes spurred on by a grown Jose Morales.

Levante started better and had a double prize. At the exit of a corner, a shot from Duarte touched Diakhaby and crashed against the crossbar but the repetitions showed that it had touched the Frenchman’s arm. The VAR called González Fuertes who pointed out a penalty. He launched Campaign and Jasper Cillessen stopped but his teammates made the statue and the Sevillian had time to prepare and place it where the goalkeeper did not arrive, whose anger was snubbed.

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Spurred on by the anger, Valencia went wildly for the tie. The locals managed to clear a Gayà center, the ball reached Morales and the ‘commander’ threw a two against one before his unguarded visiting defense that finished with Roger Martí cold blood. The Ciutat went crazy.

The panorama did not change, Valencia insisted on a headless siege and Levante in their brilliant outings on the left wing with Morales as a stiletto. The captain, who drove Piccini crazy, in one of his cuts full of inward cuts, brushed the goal and only Diakhaby’s intervention prevented him.

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When Valencia seemed most lost, Guedes threw a wall in the front of the area and completed it with a hard cross shot that reduced the distances before the break.

In the resumption he was about to arrive again from the local third but Dani De Frutos, brushed his shot by Cillessen, crashed Morales’ service on the post and again gave way to a visitor goal. Carlos Soler converted a clear penalty from Vezo to Guedes and Valencia regained their calm. He began to see the gaps in the granota rear and through one of them Guedes leaked a pass that Soler turned into a missile that closed the comeback.

After Cillessen deflected a shot almost as strong in his goal from De Frutos, Alessio Lisci shook his team and Bardhi’s entry kept the pressure going. González Fuertes ate the second yellow for the Valencian debutant Rubén Iranzo and while Levante protested a pass from Marco Andrés, he threw Guedes and when the Portuguese reached his maximum speed, he stopped abruptly, let the local defender and Cárdenas pass to sentence the crash despite that a goal from Ennis Bardhi kept local hope alive until the end.