La Liga Round 1: Valencia - Barca 1-2
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JamDav1982
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Valencia not in great shakes themselves.
Ended season in shite form and barely won a game in pre season.
Annual game of them trying to punt any player with value surely not great for their team either.
Ended season in shite form and barely won a game in pre season.
Annual game of them trying to punt any player with value surely not great for their team either.
Loki
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Now that preseason is over, every game counts. Flick has 4 days to find his starting lineup against Valencia.
- There are still 5 players injured, 4 of them are in the starting lineup.
- Fermin is on holidays
- Many players joined only recently without any rhythm with Flick ball. Olmo and Lamine probably don't even have 60 mins against Valencia in their legs.
- Mestalla is always a difficult ground, even with all players available
Brutal conditions for Flick to start the league with a win in Valencia. I wouldn't be surprised if we start with 1p or 0p.
Based on that and the performance in the pre-season, my lineup would be:
-------------MAtS----------------
Kounde - Inigo - Cubarsi - Balde
------- Bernal-Christensen
P.Victor---Gündogan---Rapha
--------------Lewy----------------
Lamine/Ferran/Garcia last 30 minutes.
- There are still 5 players injured, 4 of them are in the starting lineup.
- Fermin is on holidays
- Many players joined only recently without any rhythm with Flick ball. Olmo and Lamine probably don't even have 60 mins against Valencia in their legs.
- Mestalla is always a difficult ground, even with all players available
Brutal conditions for Flick to start the league with a win in Valencia. I wouldn't be surprised if we start with 1p or 0p.
Based on that and the performance in the pre-season, my lineup would be:
-------------MAtS----------------
Kounde - Inigo - Cubarsi - Balde
------- Bernal-Christensen
P.Victor---Gündogan---Rapha
--------------Lewy----------------
Lamine/Ferran/Garcia last 30 minutes.
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JamDav1982
Senior Member
Would imagine he goes Christensen and Gundo at DM and then Inigo with one other at CB.. Cubarsi or Garcia as both match fit.
Possibly even Fort RB if thinks Kounde needed at CB.
Get Fermin back and say to him he will get a 'pre season' break later in season when others returned from injury.
Start Fermin AM.. Raphinha LW and play Torres first half maybe at RW then off for Yamal if Yamal starting is too much... or can swap Raphinha/Torres wings if that is more suited.
Then Lewa.. will start up top obviously.
Feels like a game they need as much experience on the park as they can and may have to grind it out a bit.
Edit: Forgot Inigo may not even be registered so they may have to go for the Spain Olympic CB pairing of Cubarsi and Garcia.
Possibly even Fort RB if thinks Kounde needed at CB.
Get Fermin back and say to him he will get a 'pre season' break later in season when others returned from injury.
Start Fermin AM.. Raphinha LW and play Torres first half maybe at RW then off for Yamal if Yamal starting is too much... or can swap Raphinha/Torres wings if that is more suited.
Then Lewa.. will start up top obviously.
Feels like a game they need as much experience on the park as they can and may have to grind it out a bit.
Edit: Forgot Inigo may not even be registered so they may have to go for the Spain Olympic CB pairing of Cubarsi and Garcia.
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Illuminator
Active member
First liga games of the last 5 years:
23/24 vs Getafe (A) 0:0 D
22/23 vs Rayo (H) 0:0 D
21/22 vs Sociedad (H) 4:2 W
20/21 vs Elche (H) 3:0 W
19/20 vs Bilbao (A) 1:0 L
Smell a 0:0 coming.
23/24 vs Getafe (A) 0:0 D
22/23 vs Rayo (H) 0:0 D
21/22 vs Sociedad (H) 4:2 W
20/21 vs Elche (H) 3:0 W
19/20 vs Bilbao (A) 1:0 L
Smell a 0:0 coming.
jamrock
Senior Member
Valencia - once you go austerity you never go back.
Unless you have a billionaire owner. Who actually wants to spend, wonder how things will look for them after they finally finish their new stadium.
My guess is not much different, because they still won't be able to sell their current stadium for anything close to what they need.
Unless you have a billionaire owner. Who actually wants to spend, wonder how things will look for them after they finally finish their new stadium.
My guess is not much different, because they still won't be able to sell their current stadium for anything close to what they need.
JamDav1982
Senior Member
Valencias issues are that they are run by a billionaire who does not want to put money in or cares particularly about the future of club.
If anything their issues like many in Spain comes from at different times in history spending beyond their means.
If anything their issues like many in Spain comes from at different times in history spending beyond their means.
Fati_Future_BallonDor
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1-0 win
aka
aka
companyofcules
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No tragedy in losing but we have Olmo too this time.
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