Valencia and Elche star in the Valencian derby of the twenty-first day from LaLiga Santander, in an encounter that supposes a direct duel for the permanence. It does not seem like the most typical scenario for a club like Valencia, but its current reality makes its objective to move away from the lower positions of the classification.
The team of Javi grace, which also had a hard weekdays confrontation in Copa del Rey against him Seville in the stadium Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, He has barely been able to add 20 points in as many days. That makes it in fourteenth place in the standings, matched on points with Valladolid and Eibar, but also with only one point more than Osasuna (19) and two from Alaves (18), who is in relegation positions.
The team that comes from suffering a hard defeat, in the stadium Metropolitan Wanda, before him Atlético de Madrid by 3-1. The Valencian squad was able to hold the leader until the break, thanks to a goal from Uros Racic, which was matched by Joao Felix. However, in the second half the mattress team showed its superiority and the goals of Luis Suárez and Ángel Correa they marked the distance in the final result.
In this match, the central defender was injured Diakhaby , mainstay of defense this season. Also injured in the last play Thierry Correia, who will be replaced in principle on the right side by Daniel Wass. As if there were few problems, Mangalá is still injured, so the central pair will be for Gabriel Paulita and Hugo Guillamón, that he will finally be able to play thanks to the caution that the Appeal Committee.
Kevin Gameiro is still injured, so the attack front will continue to be occupied by Maxi Gómez and Manu Vallejo. The coach ché, Javi grace, you will finally be able to sit on the bench for the same reason as Guillamón, since the Committee has granted the precautionary measure before the sanction received by the central and the coach for forcing the yellow in a previous match of LaLiga Santander.
The Elche de Almirón arrives in an important crisis that makes it take many parties in LaLiga Santander without knowing victory. The people of Elche are currently second to last in the standings, with 17 points in 18 games, so it must be borne in mind that they have two games pending.
The people of Elche need to add three by three to get away from relegation positions, in addition to changing the dynamics of the matches. Without going any further, in his last game against him Barcelona they lost 0-2 and offered very few actions in attack. So far, the Elche he has only managed to score 16 goals in 18 games, so they will have to improve the management of occasions.
When is Valencia – Elche played?
The game is played today, Saturday, January 30, at 6.30 pm
Where to see Valencia – Elche?
The encounter can be seen Movistar LaLiga (46) and Movistar LaLiga 1 (47), platform dials Movistar Plus. You can follow all the information live on the website of Sports world.