“I’m frustrated. I didn’t expect to be like this at this point. It doesn’t give us We cannot give so many facilities”. This was one of the many lapidary phrases that José Bordalás slipped in a press conference after being thrashed against Barcelona. The Valencia coach is in a labyrinth, lost and aimless. The coach doesn’t know how to stop the bleeding of goals conceded. They are already 25 goals against in 42 games. Some chilling data for a Bordalás team.
When the man from Alicante landed in Mestalla, many thought that Valencia would once again be a rock in defense. But the reality is being very different. The Ché team is the second most scored in the championship, only surpassed by Levante (50 goals) and level with Alavés. But Bordalás is giving a thousand turns to the situation because he had never seen himself in a situation like the current one, at the head of a glass-jawed team.
Bordalás, after more than 25 years on the bench at a professional level, I had never received so many goals against at this point. In fact, his Getafe, in recent seasons, was very reliable in defense. Last season he finished with 43 goals against in 38 games, just one more than today with 13 more games than the 25 played to date.
In 2019-20, also at Getafe, he finished with 37 goals conceded throughout the course. In 2018-19 and 2017-18, he finished with 35 and 33 goals received at the end of the season, Figures much lower than those he is signing at Valencia when there is still almost a third of the championship. However, Bordalás has not been able to give his team that stamp of solidity that he had at Getafe, at Alavés, at Alcorcón… And even in Benidorm, in its origins.
The four goals conceded against Barça did a lot of damageespecially after the first part. The defeat caused Bordalás to slip that the only objective that his team should focus on is permanence to “not get into trouble.” The locker room is also aware that the tap on goals against must be closed. “It has been a reality bath. We must improve the defensive facet. It is very difficult that way,” Soler said about the bleeding of Bordalás and Valencia.