Again and Again … Valencia Destroyed

By: Cesar | December 2nd, 2007

It’s becoming repetitive writing depressing posts like these.

So I’ll try to keep this brief.
We lost. Again. This time to Athletic Bilbao, who humiliated us 3-0 at the Mestalla. They hadn’t beaten us at home in 50 years. There goes that.

That’s why fans are uninterested. Who wants to go all the way to Mestalla to watch a bunch of guys who don’t seem to care? Only about 33,000 showed up to the midweek match against Schalke 04, this a low for a team that used to consistently sell out the big European matches.

Today, fans started walking out at the 75th minute, a chorus of whistles engulfing the stadium, showing once again that the most involved people in Valencia are the spectators.

This, straight from Reuters, because I just don’t feel like typing right now.

Valencia’s season lurched from bad to downright awful after they were crushed 0-3 at home by Athletic Bilbao.

Ronald Koeman’s side got the white handkerchief treatment from an angry Mestalla crowd as the Basque side strolled to victory with goals from Francisco Yeste and two from Fernando Llorente, who had an excellent game.

The visitors struck in the 33rd minute when Yeste fired a spectacular left-footed free-kick into the top corner past a static Santiago Canizares.

Llorente got in on the act with a typical centre forward’s header in the 66th minute, before adding a third for Bilbao at the death after another mix up in the Valencia back line.

Uggh. UGGH. UGGH!!!

Weren’t things supposed to be different this year? Weren’t we supposed to be debating who we’d play in the knockout stages of the Champions League come February? Or our top-of-the-table clash with Barcelona in a few weeks time?

The life has been sucked out of the season. For now. I know that fates can change quickly in Spanish football.

But for now, I’m depressed that the club’s playing so bad.

-Where was Villa? Again? Did he even play?
-Why did we buy Zigic? Explain this to me.
-Edu. Sucked. Understandable. Manuel Fernandes? Sucked. Not understandable.
-Didn’t our defense used to be the best in Europe? What happened there?
-Canizares? I love you, brother. But please hang them up. It’s embarrasing.
-And maybe I was wrong all along: This wasn’t QQ’s fault. (There, I said it. Ok, it was his fault AT TIMES. He made bad tactical decisions.) It’s the players. They’re not good enough.

So whose fault is this? Soler’s? The fans? The players? Mine?
Were the expectations too much?
Am I whining again for no reason? Have I gone too far again because I think this team should be better than they are?

I dunno .. you tell me.

3-0 vs Villarreal at home
2-0 vs Rosenberg at home
2-0 vs Rosenberg in Norway
5-1 vs Madrid at home
1-0 vs Racing away

Am I whining? Am I crazy to think we should be better than the above?

This one sucks more than the 5-1 at home against Madrid.

I just hope someone cares enough to get the once great Valencia CF out of this funk before it’s too late.