Two great actions of Gonçalo Guedes, which reminded those who dazzled Mestalla two years ago they allowed a Valencia waning add his first victory in this de-escalation and re-engage in the fight for Europe before a Osasuna who paid his lousy first part
He Valencia He came out for the win and the defensive fragility Rojilla after the break helped him. Only the millimeter eye of the VAR avoided a goal of Rodrigo after three minutes of play in the first of the many times that the pamplonica defense of three centrals watered in the first half.
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But Valencia went from the ghosts that the club itself had summoned with its list of grievances on Friday and ten minutes later Guedes He starred in a beautiful ride in which he got rid of four rivals, including a fall, to end with a whiplash that opened the scoring.
The Portuguese continued to shake the Valencia and soon after he put a beautiful ball into one of the many spaces that were Rodrigo, with a subtle shot, made the second.
Osasuna he spent the first 45 minutes missing the Chimy Avila. Hardly a shot from Adrian already in the discount put in trouble to Cillessen, calmer with the young Guillamón and the expert Paulista in front of you.
Arrasate took the break to change the drawing and introduce a triple change that woke up his team before a Valencia unveiled. Rubén García forced the Dutch goalkeeper to stretch shortly after play resumed and Adrian sent the crossbar to reject.
They went, with a header from Oier and an arrival of Arnaiz, the best options of a Osasuna who did not stop insisting but who lacked an auction and that although he has only added a point of nine is still far from the descent.
Source: SofaScore
TECHNICAL SHEET: Valencia: Cillessen (2), Florenzi (2), Gabriel Paulista (2), Guillamón (2), Costa (2); Kondogbia (3) (Wass, m.57) (2), Parejo (3), Carlos Soler (2); Guedes (3) (Cheryshev, m.67) (2); Rodrigo (3) (Esquerdo, m.89) (1) and Maxi Gómez (2) (Ferran, m.67) (2)
Osasuna: Rubén Martínez (2), Nacho Vidal (2), Unai (1), Navas (1) (Roberto Torres, m.46) (3), D. García (1), Estupiñán (2), Brasanac (2 ) (Fran Mérida, m.69) (1), Oier (2), Iñigo Pérez (1) (Rubén García, m.46) (2), Cardona (1) (Enric Gallego, m.46) (2) and Adrián (2) (Arnáiz, m.80) (1).
Goals: 1-0, m.12: Guedes. 2-0, m.35: Rodrigo.
Referee: Medi Jiménez (C. Catalán). He admonished Guedes for Valencia, and Estupiñán and Rubén García for Osasuna.
Incidents: Matches corresponding to the thirtieth day of LaLiga played behind closed doors in Mestalla