The Slovak goal Dominik Greifwho had not played a single minute in the League, rehearsed this Saturday at Mestalla for the King’s Cup final con two superb stops for Pepelu and Hugo Duro to save the tie and add a point in the vermilion team’s visit to the Valencian capital (0-0).
After the national team break in which the Valencians Mamardashvili and Yaremchuk have qualified with Georgia and Ukraine, respectively, for the Euro Cup, Valencia wanted to pursue that European classification at club level with a victory against a Mallorca team that has its sights set on next week’s Copa del Rey final.
With Dominik Greif in goal to prepare for next week’s cup final, ‘Vasco’ Aguirre made five changes with respect to the last match while Rubén Baraja gave the start for the first time to Peter Federico and lined up Guillamón to the detriment of Diego López and Javi Guerra, respectively.
The vermilion team came out strong in the match, with a first shot from the left by Morlanes that Mamardashvili, acclaimed by his fans when he reached his goal before the initial whistle, caught without problems. Valencia, who usually start by pressing in home duels, were easily dominated by Mallorca, who took advantage of the lack of tension on the part of the black and whites to hover around the Georgian goalkeeper’s area.
Low a heavy rainthe locals tried to counterattack, but the line of five of the Mallorcan team kept at bay a Foulquier with a changed leg who had a hard time attacking and, on top of that, Yaremchuk was injured in the early stages of the crash.
The first chance came from Fran Pérez’s boots after twenty minutes, but his shot went wide, and, in the next play, Pepelu made a great filtered pass from the outside that Nastic cleared with everything when Hugo Duro was about to score. top off.
Before reaching half an hour, Ortiz Arias declared a penalty for Valencia due to a handball by Mascarell after a kick by Diego López, but he rectified his decision after the review. The pace of the match dropped between the VAR consultation and Mascarell’s injury, with a few final minutes in which Valencia tried to surprise, but Fran Pérez did not decide well on the counterattack.
After passing through the locker room, the second half began with a spectacular save by Greif from a direct free kick by Pepelu that touched the post and a clearance ‘in extremis’ by Nacho Vidal after a defective kick by Peter Federico, who had the entire goal open. Valencia seemed different, but as the minutes passed, Mallorca took the game back to their own ground.
Javier Aguirre’s team wanted a slow game, with interruptions and without surprises to save strength for the Cup final, a game that Valencia could not counter, which brought in Javi Guerra and Jesús Vázquez to try, but at the Pipo Baraja had a hard time dealing with the accumulation of rivals.
Hugo Duro, tenacious, managed to beat Nastasic and Gio, who surrounded him in the jump and still managed to head, but his shot was easy for the vermilion goalkeeper to catch. In ’71, Greif showed off with a good stretch to deny Hugo Duro the goal and the match ended goalless and with a draw that seemed to please Mallorca more than Valencia.
Datasheet:
0 – Valencia: Mamardashvili; Thierry, Mosquera, Cenk, Foulquier (Jesus Vazquez, m.65); Fran Perez (Alberto Mari, m.80), William (Amallah, m.80), Pepelu, Peter Federico (Javi War, m.65); Yaremchuk (Diego Lopez, m.16) and Hugo Duro.
0 – Mallorca: Greif; Nacho Vidal (Radonjic, m.71), Gio Gonzalez, Raillo, Nastasic, Copete, Jaume Costa (Toni Lato, m.71); Sergi Darder, Mascarell (Samu, m.35), Morlanes (Antonio Sanchez, m.78); Larin (Abdon, m.46) and Muriqi.
Referee: Ortiz Arias (Madrid Committee). He admonished Larín for the visitors.
Incidences: Match corresponding to the thirtieth day of the EA Sports League played at the Mestalla Stadium in front of 42,567 spectators.
2024-03-30 21:11:36
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