VALENCIA CÁDIZ Cádiz is used to adding

Cádiz with Sergio is scratching points here and there. In Mestalla he added the seventh of the last 12 and is two away from the descent. He added it on merit, for knowing what he had to do in each phase of the match, a match in which Valencia did not know what to do. Only one shot on goal by the black and whites in 96 minutes. And that those of Bordalás played at home to get just two points from the European positions. Another missed opportunity for the che to get hooked on a fight that should be theirs and is not due to a host of factors, among others his football. They have the final in Seville, where the illusion also plays.

Bordalás had all his goalkeepers to choose from and continued under the sticks with Mamardashvili. I support the Georgian and warn Cillessen, who has 20 days until the final of La Cartuja to make the coach change his mind. Of course Mamardashvili is not going to make it easy for the Dutchman. The statistics say that Valencia has closed the tap of goals conceded with him and saves like the one he made yesterday to Negredo’s header back him up. In truth, until almost the end, that was the only time that Mestalla knew that there were goalkeepers on the pitch. Ledesma did not even have to intervene, because his work was done by the crossbar to Maxi’s shot, the only valid shot by Valencia for the use of the ‘oops’ interjections.

The game showed that the black and whites feel more comfortable at the back with a line of three central defenders –completes the performance of Alderete and confirmation of the intentions of Jesús Vázquez- and also that Hugo Guillamón and above all Carlos Soler yearn for the circulation of La Roja. Valencia’s game is vertical to the point of vertigo and the two youth squads run more to recover the ball than with it. So Cádiz, to which Sergio has given personality to the group (he only introduced a novelty in the eleven, Lucas for Lozano) and has handed over the leadership to Negredo, was awarded possession and with it the sensations, although without further fang than the aforementioned Shark headbutt.

Valencia appeared in the second half with a different mood. The team wanted to take a step forward and Cádiz took a couple back. But Sergio’s men, knowing what they were doing, a technician who short-tied Guedes and Bryan Gil (who left injured) throughout the afternoon and he was taking out people like Lozano or Sobrino to try to put the finishing touches on some counterattack. In the absence of shots on goal, the thing was to ask for penalties. Rather penalties. Two from Valencia due to stumbled falls by Bryan Gil -none were- and one from Cádiz due to a grab from Vázquez to Sobrino -the contact was as light as it was unnecessary to do so-. Bordalás tried to give another air to the circulation with Ilaix. But nothing. The said. Only one shot on goal and seventh draw at Mestalla. So hard to get to Europe.

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Sergio González: “Competing like this, we have a lot to say”

“It was a very close game. we knew where we were coming from, they had that ball on the crossbar in the first half and we had expensive fortune, and the second half was very even, in the last third we had to finish. In that aspect, the situation of more clarity has been more even”, he pointed out.

“This draw has to reinforce us and competing like this we still have many things to say”, the coach added.

“We have to focus on our path, If something good comes from outside, it is welcome, but if you don’t get your points, nobody is going to give them to you. Next week we have an important game with Betis and we have to go little by little and focus on ourselves”, he concluded. EFE