Not Good. Not Good At All.

By: Cesar | September 23rd, 2009

I’ll be honest: I haven’t watched Valencia CF as much as I’d like to this season.
One thing or another in my ‘real’ life has kept me from Our Beloved.

So imagine my joy to notice my agenda open this afternoon and Valencia visiting Getafe?

My first full VCF match of the season. Bring it on.

Here’s what I think about this team (from my limited perch) 4 matches into the season: It’s the same old thing. A 3-1 loss to Getafe and I’m asking …

Has anything changed?

It boils down to this one word: defense.

Take away Dalport, Vicente Soriano and every other power hungry vulture surrounding our club and things still don’t change on the pitch.

Our defense sucks. Plain and simple, this team is dysfunctional.

The individual talents of Jeremy Mathieu, Alexis, Miguel, etc aren’t in question. They’re quality. But what is it about them playing together that doesn’t click? We could have Maicon in there and it wouldn’t matter.

With this defense, the offensive talents of David Villa, David Silva, Pablo Hernandez and Mata are simply wasted.

Time and again, players are out of position, or simply not able to catch up to Getafe’s quick attackers.

I’m watching this game, looking at the calendar, saying to myself, ‘Is it 2007? Is Koeman coach? What’s up here?’

I read that Villa had some harsh words for coach Unai Emery after this weekend’s dreadful 2-2 draw against Sporting Gijon, where it appeared that VCF was playing a ‘prevent defense’ against Sporting.

Can you blame him? We can’t attack with defenders like this.

Mind you, I haven’t seen VCF enough to formulate a proper opinion on the entire season’s body of work. But from what I saw today, it didn’t look good.

Some random thoughts on my first day back … (should I start another Streak?):

- Ever Banega has great touch on the ball. He’s a talent, pure and simple.
- Joaquin looked like a legitimate player today. He obviously wants to play on the 2010 World Cup team.
- Maduro. Does he do anything right?
- Miguel … he’s out of position almost every time the ball is in the offensive zone. I’d rather a 49-year old Franco Baresi than this fool.
- Marchena made a Marchena Face today. I missed him, yet booed when he was substituted.

So, my friends … I can’t say I’m happy about today’s result against Getafe.

That’s my knee-jerk, quick as balls reaction to today’s horrific display. It doesn’t look like much was done to improve the squad. Or maybe it was and I’m not aware, seeing as I’ve yet to watch VCF as much as I’d like to?

Piss poor. Today was not a good display.

Why do I feel I’ve seen this Valencia show before?