VALENCIA GETAFE | Bordalás starts red hot

The Bordalás era at Valencia and Míchel's at Getafe started red-hot. Gil Manzano did not take long to realize that his days in the field or on the beach were over. In seven minutes, an expulsion and a penalty. In the remaining 89 of the game, another two red (one for the blue bench) and eight yellow cards. 39 fouls in total, 24 by the black and white, a team that averaged 12 last season. The match was resolved by Carlos Soler, from a penalty, thus giving the first victory to Valencia de Bordalás, a team that had identity, sacrifice and that bit of fortune in the end so necessary in football to achieve goals.

Not a minute had elapsed when Iglesias Villanueva notified Gil Manzano from the VAR that an entry by Hugo Guillamón to Maksimovic was worthy of the red. After seeing it on the screen, cardboard to the song and Guillamón at home. And when the teams were still acclimating to such a numerical situation, Mitrovic forgot the experience in the dressing room and his cross pass to no one was intercepted by Cheryshev, who stepped on the area and fell after noticing Djené's contact. Gil Manzano did not hesitate, the VAR only found that the action had taken place inside and a goal from Carlos Soler, the first of the many that we will see in the League, his first with the '10' on his back.

Bordalás' first decision of nature as Valencia coach was to keep the stripes on Daniel Wass. The Dane is sure he is going or staying and until this is clarified, he knows that the Alicante loves him. Mestalla, too. The Alicante really needs you. His role was crucial to balance the superiority of Azulona troops. Valencia, in fact, by goal, read the game better until halftime and Wass contributed to it. It was an intense, supportive and fast team, abjectives that define the game of several and among them Guedes.

Getafe could not find the key to enter. The azulones lived on Arambarri and only took nails with a handful of fouls that they launched from the front. But only in one did Mamardashili have to work, one of the four debutants who were on the pitch (Alderete, Sandro and the aforementioned Mitrovic). By contrast, the black and white went to the locker room after having two clear chances, one from Soler and another from Cheryshev, saved by David Soria as a handball goalkeeper.

Míchel changed pawns and system at halftime. He took out Vitolo and Mata and went to a 4-3-3. Getafe made the ball their own, although it could not make Valencia feel uncomfortable. In fact, his main enemy was his own body, his fatigue, because the Caribbean night and Guillamón's expulsion took their toll as the minutes passed. Míchel smelled the blood around there and put in legs and artillery: the medalist Cururella and the Mexican Macías. With them he opened the field, with them the black and white began to suffer. But just in that phase came the expulsion of Cabaco, who saw the second yellow for a foul that was more from Maxi Gómez to him than the other way around. Still, with ten against ten, Getafe had a shot tie twice, first with a shot from Arambarri that repelled the stick and then, with the time already fulfilled, with a stop of instinct and reflexes Mamardashili, a goalkeeper who arrived for the subsidiary and we will see if he does not make another year bitter for Cillessen.