Mallorca defeated Valencia this Saturday in a duel known to the visitors at Mestalla (1-2). overcoming Valencia penalty goal by another eleven meters from the second half and one of Korean Kang In’s beautiful bills.
The Valencians dominated in the first half, but without jeopardizing the Mallorca goal, the balance dominated in the second half, but there was a more active Mallorca who knew how to damage the forgetting of the locals in the second half.
Valencia, which saw how Muctar Diakhaby had to retire from injury in the 2nd minute of the matchstarted off with intense vertical play against a well-established Mallorca on his field, trying to minimize local attacks.
Once Valencia’s first push phase is overcome, the match started with a few minutes of uncertainty and mistakes on both sidesbecause despite Valencia continuing to dominate the field, Rajkovic’s target was not in serious danger.
In the last part of the first half, the match changed a little. It was Valencia who showed the initiative but continued without a punch. He is in control against an effective Mallorca and is waiting to catch a counterattack to surprise the local team.
After a bad first half the second half opened under a similar scenarioWhile trying to break down the retaining wall of the Balearic team defending itself on the Valencia Mallorca field.
It should have been a penalty that opened the box nicely. Uruguayan Edinson Cavani did not fail against Rajkovic and put his team ahead after a clear defeat to Lino by Antonio Sánchez in the region.
A local goal and three changes by Mexico’s Javier Aguirre helped Mallorca out of their extreme conservatism and the Balearic team would have won the eleven meter draw. Muriqi also failed after being taken down by Nico on Amath.
The layout of the match was disrupted and neither team was able to control the game, but Mallorca had the best of three points with Dani Rodriguez’s pass and Kang In’s goal in the 82nd minute.. He defeated Mamardashvili by dribbling two of his opponents and clearing room for a shot.
From then until the end, the game went wild with those coming from one zone to another, but with one or the other failing to pass the opponent’s goal.
1 – Valencia: Mamardasvili, Thierry, Gabriel Paulista, Diakhaby (Cenk Özkacar, art.4), Gayá, Nico (Hugo Guillamón, art.66), Yunus Musah, Almeida (Marcos André, art.73), Kluivert (Hugo Duro, art.73) ), Flax and Cavani.
2 – Majorca: Rajkovic, Maffeo, Raíllo, Valjent (Nastasic, m.76), Copete (Daniel Rodríguez, m.55), Jaume Costa (González, m.78), Battaglia (Baba, m.55), Ruiz de Galarreta, Sánchez ( Amath, m.55), Kang En and Muriqi.
Goals: 1-0, m.51: Cavani from the penalty spot. 1-1, art.66: Muriqi. 1-2, m.82: Kang in.
Judge: Sánchez Martínez (Murcian Committee). Local Paulista showed yellow cards to Yunus Musah and Guillamón, and to visitors Battaglia, Muriqi, Garraleta and Raillo.
Events: The match of the eleventh day of LaLiga Santander was played in front of 41,199 spectators at the Mestalla stadium.