The Guedes firm – AS.com

Guedes scored a goal to show off. His first in the whole year. Valencia had forty games waiting for him, but in which he was 41 Portuguese he left his work of art. A goal with his own stamp, similar to what he did to Seville two years ago and with which he dazzled Mestalla and also to Peter Lim, who months later paid 40 million for him. Guedes, this time, went away of how many rojillos entered him and perhaps more if others had tried. But nobody hunted him down. He was thrown and with the tusk on his right leg. Guedes took the ball 15 meters from Cillessen's area and left it in Rubén's goal squad. In between he left Oier, caracoleo a Unaidribbled Raúl Navas and haggled to David Garcia. He walks Guedes gave it to him Jaume Costa, in case it counts as assistance.

Guedes' goal was the best of a game that Valencia had always controlled on the scoreboard, but in which those of Celades they wanted to live on rents all the second half and Osasuna almost complicated his life. Breathe the Valencia, who is reunited with victory five months later, and resurrects for the Guedes cause, who also added an assist to his goal. Osasuna, a team that was a disaster in the first half and whose reaction after the break was unsuccessful, at least it leaves its week through the Pyrenees (Real Sociedad, Atlético and Valencia) at the same distance from which it was from the descent, which is no small feat.

This in a match in which the VAR crossed again in the way of Rodrigo. Not even two minutes were up when the international beat Ruben. His uncheck after Florenzi pass he caught the Arrasate line of five still in Pamplona and only after revision of the VAR, for offside of centimeters or less, prevented Osasuna from seeing him go to the fret as soon as his approach started. Again the VAR and again Rodrigo. If he Valencia He expected some condescension for showing his discomfort in the form of a list of damages, that of the VAR squad and bevel came to tell him to add one more and knock on another door.

But to Valencia, this time, the annulled goal did not get him out of his boxes. After all, the game was just started and Osasuna looked more like Wednesday against Atlético than a week ago against Real Sociedad. The rojillos, perhaps because with 35 points they do not feel threatened or because five losses are many for a team with its budget, did not give a right-wing until Get down changed parts to rest.

But when he did (from 5-4-1 to 4-4-2 with the entry of Rubén García, Roberto Torres and Enric Gallego), Valencia, with a goal from Rodrigo (without the VAR saying otherwise), was already two goals clear. Such a sense of margin on the scoreboard was the fifth time that Black and White felt in the entire League.

So, No matter how hard Rubén tried, no matter how close Torres and Adrián were, Cillessen finally left his goal at zero again. Casually he did it on the day he returned Gabriel Paulista and in which Celades made it clear that for him Hugo Guillamón is today ahead of Diakhaby and Mangala. It is up to him to move the club, because in two weeks the youth squad ends his contract. Another rooster crows with Ferran, who has been a substitute in two of the three games after confinement. At least this sunday Guedes was Guedes.

Arrasate: “The first time, very poor”

Osasuna's coach, Jagoba Arrasate, said after the defeat in the Valencia field that the first half of his team was very bad, he stressed that these facilities cannot be given in the First Division and pointed out that they must return to being the team they were to close salvation.

“At half-time we could only improve. We made a very poor first half. We made changes, changes of pattern to look for a goal that would get us, we have done much better but we cannot give as many facilities”, he pointed out at a press conference.

“In the first half, with little, Valencia has made us two goals. In the first you cannot give facilities. We have lacked everything, positioning, we have tightened badly, we have made mistakes in surveillance”, lament.

Arrasate said they were “very weak”, but said he does not think that “it was relaxation” because they were “hurt by the other day (the loss to Atlético de Madrid 0-5).”

“I am concerned about everything, the defensive aspect because we have been vulnerable in these two games and also that we have not scored a goal. We have to throw in the rest and make the best of each and every coach to achieve the goal. We have to recover the version of a recognizable Osasuna “he concluded.

Celades: “It wasn't as much as a 'match ball”

Valencia coach Albert Celades said that this Sunday's match against Osasuna (2-0) was not final in the fight for the Champions League, but he said he is very happy for the victory and for having left the goal at zero.

“Not as much as a 'match ball', but each time there are fewer points and I would give a lot of importance to the mood factor, we have been looking for it for days, we have not fitted in and we are very happy”, explained the coach at the press conference.

“We have done a very good first half, in which we have been able to go with more goals and it is true that in the second they have improved and it was a bit long, but we had talked a lot about the management of the last minutes”he added.

Celades explained that he had been shown a photo of the goal annulled by the VAR to Rodrigo Moreno and said that he does not know if it is well annulled, but stressed that he believes “in arbitration honesty.” “Little more can I say,” he added.

The technician spoke of Gonçalo Guedes' anger after being replaced and said that he did not see him, “but it is not so important, the important thing is that when he leaves he has the appropriate attitude.”

Regarding the young defender Hugo Guillamón, who today played his third game as a starter, he insisted that “You don't have to run and think that he will always be the starter, it is the third game in a row, he is showing a good level and I hope he can continue like this.” He also indicated that he hopes that the negotiation to renew his contract, which concludes at the end of the season, can “come to fruition”.