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Source: Real Betis
Definitely the biggest surprise of this season’s La Liga and perhaps all the top 5 leagues is Rayo Vallecano. After the autumn, the newcomer to the Spanish top competition finished in a great fourth place, guaranteeing the Champions League. What does he owe it to?
The modest Club of Madrid is located in the Puente de Vallecas district, around 10 minutes by Metro from the city center. “Rayo,” means lightning in Spanish, so the club has lightning in its emblem and jersey.
The home games are played by Rayo at the Estadio de Vallecas, which can hold 14,000 spectators. It is the smallest stadium in the entire La Liga. But don’t expect any intimate atmosphere, on the contrary. Vallecan fans can create a really stormy atmosphere at the cozy stand.
Home environment
It is the home environment that is Raya’s main weapon. Vallecano scored 25 points out of a possible 25 at its stadium, winning eight times and drawing only once. At home, he is the best in La Liga and, together with PSG, the best team in the top 5 leagues. The only team that scored Rayo for points at home is Celta Vigo.
The great atmosphere in front of our own fans also contributes to the great atmosphere. Boiler behind the gate in the sector „South bottom,“ tirelessly supports his pets throughout the match. At the Estadio de Vallecas Rayo, for example, they also defeated Barcelona, which they defeated 1: 0.
Falcao
The biggest star of the club. The Colombian sniper came to Ray in the summer from Galatasaray and helped the modest whole from Madrid enormously. Although he is often a morgue due to injury, he managed to jump into 10 matches out of eighteen and scored 5 goals. At the same time, he jumped from the bench only six times for the final minutes.
He hit his first three starts. In his debut against Getafe, he sealed the win with a goal of 3: 0, three days later in Bilbao he scored the win in the 96th minute with a goal at 2: 1. Subsequently, he played against Cádiz for the first time in the starting line-up and scored the winning goal in a 3: 1 win.
Then he shot a win against Barcelona (1: 0), he also scored at Santiago Bernabéu, where he only corrected a 1: 2 defeat against Real Madrid. The 35-year-old matador has a great influence on the team, he immediately became a darling of the fans, in front of the stadium almost every stand offers scarves with his portrait.
(Queue to buy a ticket to the Falca show in Vallecan)
Oscar Trejo
The second biggest star of the club and the absolute puller of Ray. An offensive midfielder who does not seem to be running too much on the pitch, but his technique and vision of the game are at a huge level. The 33-year-old Argentine is the best assistant in the entire La Liga, he already has 8 goal passes. He also added 3 goals.
He plays great standard situations, he can hold the ball in a difficult situation, it is very difficult to separate it from the ball. In addition, Raya supplies fast wings with its precise passes.
Great left side Garcia – Garcia
Rayo can count on his left side, which is very dangerous and Vallecano pulls most of his attacks through it. Fran García, a 22-year-old offspring of Real Madrid who came to the transfer in the summer, is on the left. This season, the low defender has played all the minutes, and with his speed and dynamism, Ray is a great weapon.
In addition, he gets along well with the left wing of Álvaro García. The 29-year-old footballer has a balance of 5 goals and 2 assists, making him the team’s best scorer with Falca and the second most productive player behind Treje. As with Fran, he is a smaller (167cm), clever, agile and dynamic player.
He regularly entertains the fans with his loops, he enjoys one-on-one fights, and he is also very strong at the end. And especially speed. Álvaro García recorded a speed of 35.3 km / h, which is the most of all La Liga players this season.
Commentator Andy West had an interesting addition: “If anyone could catch Alvaro Garcia, it would probably be Fran Garcia playing right behind him.”
Star names
Two more names are worth mentioning. Portuguese Baby. Does that tell you anything? Sir Alex Ferguson pulled the long striker to Manchester United in 2010, while Bebé was an absolutely unknown player who played at the 2008 World Cup for the Homeless.
However, he was not very lucky at Old Trafford, he only played at home twice in the Premier League and once in the FA Cup. However, no one will deny him a goal in the Champions League in his only start. He then joined Besiktas, Rio Ave, Ferreira, Benfica, Cordoba, Eibar, and finally settled in Vallecan. He is usually his first substitute this season and has scored two assists.
The second interesting name in Raya’s cadre is Luca Zidane. You’re right, he’s the son of the famous Zinedin Zidan. However, Luca did not “stumble” in fasting and is a goalkeeper. Real Madrid’s offspring has 2 starts for the A-team of the White Ballet, last year he moved to Ray.
He caught 15 matches in the second league, this year he is second only to the reliable Dimitrievski, but it didn’t have to be that way. He entered the first round against Seville in the basic lineup, but in the 15th minute he saw a red card and then the Macedonian goalkeeper did not let him go between the three bars. Zidane only joined the Copa del Rey twice.
Source: Rayo Vallecano, Livesport
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