Falcao and Rayo lose their first match in Vallecas

Rayo Vallecano lost their first game of the season at the Vallecas Stadium. Radamel Falcao García’s team, who started and played 68 minutes, lost 0-1 against Athletic Club of Bilbao for the twenty-second day of LaLiga Santander. The next date, the Colombian team will face Celta de Vigo, but before that they will play the Copa del Rey quarterfinals against Mallorca. El Tigre will miss that game because he is with the National Team.

Rayo insists, but Serrano overtakes Athletic

In 10 seconds, Falcao had his first shot on goal after a dizzying start in Vallecas. However, the visitors knew how to control the intention of the premises and took possession of the ball in the face of a more reactive attitude on the part of Rayo who sought to explode with speed on the wings to win the final line and look for Radamel’s head with crosses.

In 27 minutes Rayo Vallecano tilted the field in his favor to position himself in the visitor’s field and attack him constantly from all sectors of the field. The still ball continued to be a weapon for Iraola’s men who know that from above they have a certain advantage over the Colombian. But when the place was better, he appeared one against for Nico Serrano to take advantage of and with a cross shot he beat Luca Zidane for 0-1 in 29′.

At 32′ came the Colombian’s first header after a cross from the left, the best sector to generate play for the locals with Trejo as a key piece. The visiting lead kept their reactive disposition to take advantage of Williams’ speed. While, for Rayo, the only alternative to define in the area was el Tigre, who at 38′ recovered in his field and generated an offensive play in which they failed to finish. The first half ended with 0-1 for Marcelino’s men.

Lightning tries but fails

Ball and will for the local that from the beginning of the complement was launched to look for the tie. The centers to the area were the constant for the Colombian who at 58′ received a pass that he could not control well in a counterattack that Rayo had managed to form. A lot of scoring in the area for Falcao who also did not count on the aim of his teammates to have a clear shot against Simón in 65′ of the match.

Falcao left the court at 68′ due to Iraola’s decision, Guardiola entered in his place. Two minutes later Álvaro had it for the tie. After eluding the goalkeeper, she finished off, but the defense took her off the line. In the end, the play was annulled due to the Rayo player being out of place.

In the last minutes, Rayo brought Athletic Club de Bilbao into their own field in search of a draw. He tried in every way to get it, both in the still ball, as by the lateral centers and even the medium distance shots, but could not beat the arch guarded by Unai Simón.

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With this result, Rayo Vallecano fell to the eighth place in the standings, left qualifying positions for international tournaments and remains with 31 points after nine games won, four tied and eight lost. Athletic Club climbed to ninth place with the same number of units.