Outside of arbitration controversies at Valencia a factor stings a lot from the bench. The defensive weakness. Are already 32 goals in 20 games. Inexplicable figures for José Bordalás who is heard day after day almost ashamed of something that does not go with him. What’s more, he has never been with him. He has an average of 1.6 goals conceded per match. And the anger is monumental.
But what hurts the most about that number is what it entails. We go from the form to the bottom. And that is nothing more than the intensity per moment that the team is seen when defending. Well, of the 32 goals, at least 16 have come in match actions … within the small area! The rivals have gotten into, as they say, ‘even the kitchen …’ A fact that is inconceivable for an elite team and even more so for a squad led by a coach like the Alicante man.
Valencia has conceded in 14 of the 20 games goals within the small or very close area
Because the auctions that have occurred within the small area can be accepted if they are, to a certain extent, fair but when the figure begins to exceed repeating itself continuously is no longer a coincidence. There is a problem. And that sangria is very evident in this team. Valencia has conceded in 14 of the 20 games goals within the small area (or on the edge of it). They are common game throws … but if it turns into repetitive is that something is happening.
These are the ‘small area’ goals that punish Valencia:
- Valencia-Real Madrid: 1-2 (Benzemá)
- Seville-Valencia: 2-0 (Lato pp)
- Valencia-Athletic: 0-1 (I. Martínez)
- Barcelona-Valencia: 3-1 (Coutinho)
- Valencia-Mallorca: 0-1 (Angel), 0-2 (Diakhaby pp)
- Betis-Valencia: 3-1 (Pezzella)
- Valencia-Athletic: 1-3 (Vrsaljko)
- Valencia-Rayo: 1-1 (Isi)
- Celtic- Valencia: 1-0 (Blades)
- Valencia-Elche: 1-1 (Boye)
- Levante-Valencia: 1-0 (Campaign), 3-4 (Bardhi)
- Valencia-Espanyol: 1-2 (handful)
- Real Madrid-Valencia: 2-0 (Vinicius), 3-0 (Vinicius)
And more when the coach repeats the same message game after game. Although this time after the Bernabéu duel went a little further. “We are the second team that concedes the most goals in La Liga. That is impossible. If we do not react, we cannot aspire to anything. Every time we play against a team from the middle of the table up, they score us like butter “, he pointed hurt.
Incomprehensibly those of Madrid have been able to enter until the small area
And the sentence of the sentence is this analysis of the technician. “The team has been very fragile and vulnerable, again. Madrid’s second goal was very easy. There were several players from Valencia and, incomprehensibly, those from Madrid have been able to enter even the small area “.
