Pedraza and Baena create a deserved draw against Sporting de Portugal

a goal of Alex Baena After receiving assistance from Alfonso Pedraza With a quarter of an hour to go until the end of the game, he allowed the Villarreal win this Thursday a well-deserved draw against Sporting in Faro (Portugal) in the first friendly of the preseason and in which he had several clear chances to score.

He was about to go ahead Villarreal in the first minute of play with a double shot from Moi Gomez y asparagusbut the first shot was cleared by the goal Adam and the second went high. The Portuguese replied immediately Goncalves, the best of the game, but he could not find a finisher for his good pass from inside the area.

In his debut as a player of the Villarreal, Jose Luis Morales generated a lot of danger from the right flank and a combination of the Madrid winger with Moi Gomez ended with a shot Fer Child who left slightly off course (m.14). Until then they were the best minutes of the Villarreal of the first time.

He had already grown Sporting, with a little more rhythm in his second pre-season friendly, and after a solo run the midfielder Pedro Gonçalves he shot with his left foot from the edge of the box and the ball entered the top corner to make it 1-0 just before the break.

The second half started unchanged and the script of the match did not change either. Trigueros stole a ball in the area of ​​the Sporting what Fer Child did not convert into a goal due to the great save of Adam when barely the first five minutes had been played.

After match time, the coach Unai Emery He looked for the visiting reaction with the entry of Danjuma, Parejo, Coquelin or Gerard Moreno. It was, however, another of those who entered the second half, defender Alfonso Pedraza, who improved his team. He first brushed the goal after dribbling with his left, but shot very badly with his right from outside the box.

insisted stonewho with a quarter of an hour to go, took advantage of a mistake by his defender to dish up Álex Baena’s draw, who showed in his first appearance that he is still in shape after his great season on loan last year at the Girona and placed the well-deserved draw for Villarreal in the first test of the summer.

Datasheet:

1 – Sporting CP: Adán, Esgaio, Marsà, Gonçalo Inácio, Reis, Nuno Santos, Ugarte, Matheus Nunes, Gonçalves, Tabata and Paulinho. Trincao, Santos, Essugo, Ribeiro and Veiga also played.

1 – Villarreal CF: Jorgensen, Mario, Mandi, Basin, Dani Tasende, Morales, Wheatmen, Capoue, Moi Gomez, Child and Jackson. Gerard Moreno, Danjuma, Pedraza, Albiol, Parejo, Alex Baena, Coquelin and Iborra also played.

Goals: 1-0, m.39: Goncalves. 1-1, m.75: Alex Baena.

Referee: Baixinho (Portugal). No warnings.

Incidences: Villarreal CF’s first friendly match of the pre-season played in Faro (Portugal).

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