Valencia Rolls On
By: Cesar | March 30th, 2007And on we go to the most important game at hand, Week 28 of the Spanish League championship and a home match with Espanyol of Barcelona.
Valencia will need 3 points against Espanyol to stay in the title race, after losing to Racing Santander at home a few weeks back. Espanyol are in the running for European competition next season. They are only 6 points away from a UEFA Cup spot and will come looking for 3 points.
Vicente could make an appearance this week. That would be a big boost ahead of the Champions League game midweek. He’s been out about a month.
Chances are Los Che will come out all guns blazing, with thoughts centered on this match and not elsewhere. Why not? They’re not far off the pace and Barcelona & Sevilla aren’t running away with the League.
Old friend Rufete makes a guest appearance, playing for Espanyol. Who else misses his long locks and ‘devil’ shirt, exposed when he scored? (Which wasn’t often …)
‘This is a vital time for us with the Champions League quarter-finals coming up and in the league we need to push hard again because we let slip a game we should not have lost,’ defender Roberto Ayala said. I couldn’t have said it better.
It’s a tricky game, but not impossible. I look for Quique to push some of the starters out after 70 minutes or so, give them a breather.
But breather or not, if Valencia fancies winning Spain, they need this match.
Prediction: Valencia 2 Espanyol 1
So what are your thoughts? Let’s see who comes closest to getting this right … winner gets pride, nothing more. I have nothing to offer!
And on we go, taking the plane to London, the cab to West London, the tube to Fulham Broadway … Stamford Bridge and Chelsea on Wednesday … European glory in our sights!
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I’m gonna go with a prediction of 2-0. I have a lot of faith in the Valencia lineup (hopefully we start Vicente,I love watching him play) esp Villa and Silva.
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My prediction: Valencia 2 Espanyol 0
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Valencia 4-1 Espanyol (Villa x2, Silva y Guerra)
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Congratulations Cesar this blog was necessary. Here in California is not very easy to watch Valencia matches. Hope to win this play without problems V 3 . E 1
I´ll visit the blog everytime i could, totally support to your work here.
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Hi Cesar.I´m glad that you exercise of valencianist from NY.Grettings and I´ll send you commentaries from Valencia in the future.Tonight I´ll go to Mestalla and I hope that we win though the Espanyol always has been a complicated team in Mestalla.
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Valencia vs Espanyol 3-2
Great match by Joaquín, Vicente and Villa. On the other side, Curro Torres, Moretti and Albiol played a rather poor match.Posted from
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