Madrid, Jan 10 (EFE) .- Valencia once again entrusted Carlos Soler to obtain a vital victory in Valladolid (0-1) and capture a dose of oxygen when they needed it most.
After eight days without getting a win, Javi Gracia’s team had to wait for inspiration from one of its main references today. In the last victory, around November 8 against Real Madrid, he was already the protagonist by transforming three penalties.
International sub’21, the Valencian player so far had five goals, all of them maximum penalty. In Valladolid, with the thermometer below zero and when the crash faced the end without a clear resolution, a distant whip was taken to unbalance the contest and give three points that have their weight in gold, especially in view of the more than complicated situation in which the whole of Mestalla was.
Before José Gayá and the Uruguayan Maxi Gómez had sent two balls to the wood of the Valladolid goal. Valencia did not falter in their efforts and found the solution in Soler’s shot. Then it even seemed to sentence, but the VAR annulled Manu Vallejo for offside a bit against a Pucelano team that had no real arguments to avoid fully entering the quagmire, although in the extension he had the tie in a foul taken by the Chilean Fabián Orellana who ended up in wood.
Honduran Anthony ‘Choco’ Lozano led Cádiz to end their five-game winless series with a win over Alavés (3-1).
The team led by Álvaro Cervera, who had been the revelation of the first league stage, needed to put an end to that trend to put more land in between with respect to the red zone. He had not won since December 4, when he surprised Barcelona.
And he finally found his way to victory against an opponent also in need like Pablo Machín who accused the expulsion of Alberto Rodríguez ‘Tachi’ at 50 minutes for double warning.
At that time, the match was equal to one after opening the account Álex Fernández at a quarter of an hour and drawing Joselu Mato eight minutes later from a penalty.
Cádiz took advantage of the superiority thanks to the performance of ‘Choco’ Lozano. He achieved the second goal (m.56) with a perfect shot after a center from Uruguayan ‘Pacha’ Espino and served the third (m.68) to Álvaro Negredo.
Levante also continues to alleviate their situation. In his case, thanks to another LaLiga veteran like José Luis Morales. The ‘commander’ showed his stripes at the moment of truth and when his team was being overtaken by a good Eibar.
The Japanese Takashi Inui’s goal at the beginning of the second period was the result of what was happening on the pitch, but when everything seemed controlled by Eibar, two quick exits from Levante changed the scenery.
The ‘commander’ served a perfect ball to Gonzalo Melero for the tie and culminated a counter to culminate a comeback that confirms the Levantine recovery, especially in the Ciutat de Valencia, where he achieved his fourth win in a row, and stopped an Eibar that had He has added four points in his two previous meetings and is still close to danger.
Jose Antonio Pascual
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