vcome back the Valencia to Mestalla where just over 48 hours Players they celebrated with beer and cava your ranking for the cup final. It doesn’t have to be easy assimilate the euphoria overflow Wednesday night and channel it to compete again on Saturday mid-afternoon.
But the black and white team knows that the Cup is an illusion and that the League is the obligation at the moment. Above all, because the classification for some european competition still in the air. Only if you win final to the Betis it ensures the Europe League. In LaLiga, it is 12 points from the 5th classified (Atletico) already nine of 7th (Villarreal). Big words. But it is also true that the calendar presents him with more rivals than the lower middle area of the table until the end of the campaign and that the team cut Majorca his streak of seven games knowing no victory.
Bordalás will be seen in the obligation to give some breaks to the team, even though five changes They also come in handy on these occasions. one of the main Doubts is in if you can repeat the three center system -which has allowed him to keep a clean sheet in the last two games- taking into account that Alderete is sanctioned and Paulista The Cup match ended with discomfort. Ilaix Moriba also lose the match sanction and I know a list of absentees who complete the Cillessen, Gayá and Thierry injured. It is not anything if one takes into account that five footballers would appear in the ideal eleven of the team.
Victory resists
A Balsamic victory is what Granada is looking for to forget the eight games they have gone on without winning, a heavy ballast that seems to grip the rojiblanco squad, uneasy at seeing the relegation zone up close.
The Andalusians will try sneak into the Valencia party, still hungover after achieving their ticket to the Cup final. And they have to find a victory precisely in Mestallaa scene of unpleasant memories for the Nasrids, unable to achieve a victory in the domains of the black and white team, where they accumulate 22 losses and three draws, with a baggage of 62 goals against and 13 goals for. He is the rival that best gives Valencia in his field.
Enigma
In the last days the certainties seem to have disappeared in the grenadeand Robert Moreno strives with drawing and name changes, in finding a formula that can recover the competitive level of the team, so, apart from the forced casualties of Gonalons and Duarte, There are many unknowns that the rojiblanco eleven presents.
Without goals there is no paradise
keep the clean sheet It seems like an obligation, but for Granada sharpening their aim has also become an obsession. Since the start of 2022, the Nasrids have celebrated four goals and have scored a single goal in the last 450 minutesa drought that Luis Suarez, Molina and Arezo They will try to stop.
