Valencia - Athletic Club Double by Raúl García to confirm Athletic's European candidacy.
One before the game in the box and one on the pitch. Raúl García , an all-out player converted to a striker - whatever it takes - reaffirmed his status as Pichichi rojiblanco with a spectacular double.
With the victory, Garitano's team grabs seventh place and also confirms his candidacy for the Europa League. From Valencia, with Voro on the bench there was news at times. The worst part is that it starts to feel sorry. Because he wants to and cannot . He makes two mistakes and they are two goals against. And a ball falls four meters from the goal and sends it out.
Valencia took five minutes to shoot on goal. The detail would not be more important if it were not because in the last two games he had not done it once. Guedes did not hit hard and Unai Simón cleared with a good stretch to his right. Valencia's good looks didn't last long. Between Muniain and Williams they turned a bad ball out of Kondogbia into a new goal by Raúl García , the top rojiblanco scorer.
Athletic needed little to control the game. The second line of attack turned the black and white ball exits into an ordeal and launched like a dagger to the left with Córdoba and Yuri . In case of doubt, that before a team with Rodrigo and Maxi in attack it is not strange that some arise, Yeray and Iñigo Martínez solved the problems
They lost sight of the Valencian Uruguayan striker once, but he saw his shot on the plate so clear that he went astray. With Ferran and Guedes , tied short by Athletic's pressure line, a toned Florenzi emerged to put good balls into the area.
If the first half ended with the feeling that Valencia could turn it around, Raul García put the game in place . In the first minute of the second half, he took advantage of another bad ball out to score a goal with the left from outside the area ,
Valencia gave some signs of life in the second half. Cheryshev agitated the attack by his band, but he did not find a destination in any of the balls he put in the area . At least he improved the deplorable image of his last two games.
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Alavés 0 vs Granada 2
He only needed a point to save himself so soon, but that is little for a team as serious as Diego Martínez's Granada, the revelation of LaLiga . There is still a course and the Nasrid team has already finished its duties winning in Mendizorroza, but there is not going to be anything. Soldier and company want war . They don't have enough with a tenure that is already a great success for a club that comes from where it comes from, that can celebrate what a title means. The one who is not saved is Alavés . It has a mattress although not enough to fall asleep. You still have to suffer.
Granada can look up. He has earned it in a season that will be historic, that of the return to Primera and such a comfortable salvation, in which he even touched the Cup final. But it can still be more. He is in the fight for Europe. He got in again certifying a victory with his own stamp . A firm Granada in his area, fast and effective against.
The goals that Alavés did not score, were scored by the Nasrid team, which was advanced by means of Antoñín . Both could be matched by Magallán, but what cannot be missed failed, and also Lucas, who ran into the post. Granada started suffering and on the first goal they built a game of their own, one of those that make them be there.
The meeting resumed after the break and Alavés took another bite without realizing it. The Granada stole and mounted a counter against cinema that Soldado defined with a shot that has as standard. There was still a game, but Diego Martínez's team was in charge of closing it as soon as possible. As a salvation that is already a title for Granada. But who knows. Over there, in that wonderful city, it is easy to dream.
