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Also Stoke City proclaimed that Valencia CF is not weaker than Barcelona and Real Madrid and so they are expecting a lot from Valencia, but I think they might have missed the year. Its not 2003, certainly not 1999.

Seems Benitez also told them few stories about VCF, maybe from his time to scare them. Either ways its going to be a fun match, especially the English commentary if I can find one with good quality, otherwise will watch it on TV.

Angel Dealbert offered new contract by Valencia CF

Angel Dealbert revealed that he's been offered new contract by Valencia CF, but he hasn't signed it yet and is going to wait till the summer to sign it. He probably hopes there to be some interest for him to be able to negotiate for a bigger salary, although he said he would like to stay at Valencia CF and finish his career here.

He has been very humble and hasn't caused any troubles for not being a regular, which is not what you can say for Ricardo Costa for example.

I'd certainly like to see him stay for few more years, plus he has been actually very good in his appearances and done a good job defending and in my ratings has been actually better than Ricardo Costa or David Navarro or Stankevicious or even Rami and Ruiz if we compare to his score last year.

Valencia CF vs Sporting Gijon - Match Preview

Valencia CF vs Sporting Gijon

Stadium: Mestalla
12th, February, 2012; 18:00CET
23rd matchday, La Liga
Expected Attendance: 35.000

Coaches: Unai Emery and Iñaki Tejada

 

After a disappointing loss from FC Barcelona at the Copa Del Rey, Valencia CF will once again focus on the primera league and try to get its first win in 5 matches. With Atletico Madrid and Atletico Bilbao drawing and loosing respectively Valencia CF has a chance to get away from them and increase the lead to a comfortable 9 points lead over Atletico Madrid. 

Levante is also playing against Real Madrid so its safe to say that if Valencia CF wins it will increase its ldead over Levante to 8 points.

 

Valencia CF has been in a slump the last month or so in La Liga and has gone 5 matches without winning, 4 of those matches drawing and loosing to Real Sociedad. This kind of performance is not surprising, as almost every year with Emery now he gets similar results with Valencia. We always seem to slump after returning from the short winter break.

Will today's match again Sporting Gijon be the turning point or will we continue on this bad run of results. Certainly this is the match we must win, before the alarm bells start ringing. The fact that Valencia doesn't have tough opposition this season is benefiting us, since we are not under pressure to start getting results, but this is very important match and one we must win.

 

Unai Emery has brought 18 players with him, with Ruiz injured and Pablo as Emery says left to recover further from his injury, after a bleak performance in the last La Liga match.

 

Valencia CF squad:

• Goalkeepers: Alves and Guaita.
• Defenders: Miguel, Barragán, Rami, Dealbert, Jordi Alba.
• Midfielders: Mathieu, Albelda, Topal, Tino Costa, Éver, Bernat, Feghouli, Piatti.
• Forwards: Jonas, Aduriz, Soldad.

Sporting Gijon is in the relegation zone with only 19 points, only less than Zaragoza and with Villarreal improving under their new coach its going to likely be a tough season for them with every match a battle to avoid relegation. 

In the last 5 matches Sporting Gijon have won once, draw once and lost 3 times. They are also the worst team defensively with a staggering 39 goals conceded and only 20 goals scored which while not worst, its pretty low.

David Barral is their most proficient goal scorer with 7 goals scored so far which accounts for 1/3 of their overall goals scored.

Technical Details Valencia CF (probable setups)
Formation: 4-2-3-1
Line-up: Diego; Barragan, Rami, Dealbert, Alba; Tino, Albelda; Piatti, Jonas, Bernat; Soldado.
Tactics: Medium defensive line, all round pressure, positional changes from the wingers, 3 way attacks, mixed passing.

 

Result Prediction:

Valencia CF 2-0 Sporting Gijon

With no more Copa Del Rey to defocus the players and no more room for mistakes the team should be able to beat Sporting Gijon, especially since we are playing on home ground.

Valencia CF interested in Jonathan Viera

Valencia CF technical director Braulio Vazquez admits interest in Jonathan Viera, Las Palmas striker. Speaking to the newspaper La Provincia he said that Valencia CF is interested in Viera and that Valencia CF has been following him and analyzing his play and he likes what he's seen. He announced to make a move in the summer to try and sign him.

With a clause of six million euros, the fact is that Viera contract with the Las Palmas ends in June 2013 so they are going to be forced to sell the player, as the player has announced he wants to move.

Report have it that Jonathan Viera has reached a verbal agreement with Valencia, so its likely in that circumstance Valencia CF to be able to sign him in the summer without too much trouble from other teams like Atletico Madrid, Napoli and Malaga.

Join me to a new forum and lets get the discussion going

Hi there. I've changed my forum link to a new forum one managed by Gavin, Rezaur and now me. There are already more than dozen people there actively discussing and I hope to see all of you there. Its obviously an English language forum.

You can go on there immediately and engage in discussion right now even without registration, but preferably you would want to register if the rules change in the future.

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Valencia CF 19th richest football club in 2010/11

Deloitte released their football money league results and Valencia CF is 19th on the list of the most richest clubs in 2010/11.

Real Madrid head the Money League for the seventh successive year and require one more year in top position in order to match the dominance of Manchester United’s during the first eight years of the Money League. FC Barcelona complete a Spanish one-two for the third successive year, whilst the top six positions remain unchanged.

German club Schalke’s run to the semi-finals of the Champions League has allowed the club to claim a top ten position for the first time, climbing six places. We expect Manchester City to claim a top ten position in the next edition of the Money League. England retains the largest representation from any single country with six clubs, with the other 14 clubs from the other ‘big five’ European leagues. There are three new entries into this year’s top 20 in Borussia Dortmund, Valencia and Napoli.


2010/11 Revenue (€m)
1 Real Madrid 479.5
2 FC Barcelona 450.7
3 Manchester United 367
4 Bayern Munich 321.4
7 AC Milan 235.1
8 Internazionale 211.4
9 Liverpool 203.3
10 Schalke 04 202.4
11 Tottenham Hotspur 181
12 Manchester City 169.6
13 Juventus 153.9
14 Olympique de Marseille 150.4
15 AS Roma 143.5
16 Borussia Dortmund 138.5
17 Olympique Lyonnais 132.8
18 Hamburger SV 128.8
19 Valencia 116.8
20 Napoli 114.9

FC Barcelona 2-0 Valencia CF Match Report

FC Barcelona 2-0 Valencia CF

Possesion: 66%-34%

Fouls: 12-22

Shots: 14-4

The match started fairly calmly with both sides trying to establish control in midfield with Valencia CF being more successful in the early stages and pressuring Barcelona aggressively and deep in their territory and this would have an effect and Barcelona players would commit quite a few errors.

First chance was for Valencia in the 12th minute with Mathieu's great through ball to Feghuoli who was basically alone on goal, but his shot was inaccurate.

15h minute counter chance for Barcelona and their actual first chance and Fabregas converts it into goal after poor marking by Miguel and an even poorer reaction and positioning by Diego Alves.

18th minute a huge blunder by Rami who gives the ball to Messi, trying to pass to Banega, Messi sprints towards the goal and shoots, but Alves was alert and saves.

Good save by Digeo once again in the 25th minute after a shot by Messi after the free kick. Minutes later Barcelona would start pushing hard on goal and would get their chance in the 31st minute with Diego clearing the ball short to Ruiz and this one fails to receive the ball properly and ends up giving it to Fabregas or Messi, but luckily the shot is saved by Diego yet again.

36th minute one more chance for Fabregas after Mathieu fails to get the ball off of him in some very poor marking, but once again this shot was saved by Diego.

Valencia would try to get something going and in the 39th minute it would come close to Pinto's goal, but Jonas shot is blocked.

Ultimately the first half was rather poor and we are lucky the result is still only 1-0 for Barcelona after their several chances to score.

Second half started and a quick chance for Alba as he gets to a pass from Jonas and in front of goal, but Pinto reacts fast and saves.

53th minute Chance for Messi as he escapes Ramim but Ruiz is close and blocks with a sliding challenge. Just a minute later Messi goes past Jonas, Albelda and Ruiz and manages to shoot at goal, but Diego saves.

58th minute chance for Valencia CF as Aritz Aduriz finds himself in decent position and Pinto is out of goal, but Aduriz fails fails to score as Mascherano gets to the ball and heads it out.

62nd minute Ruiz gets the ball kicked off his legs by Alexis and the ball finds its way to Messi whonow has huge chance, but Diego or Ruiz just manage to get to him and get the ball to go just wide and into corner. 

72th minute Mathieu tries to pass to the lone Aduriz after a counter attack, but only gets a corner. From the corner Jonas manages a volley, but Pinto saves.

74th minute good chance for Barcelona, but Miguel is there and blocks.

79th minute good chance for Aduriz , but he slips just as he is to shoot and ruins his chance.

Minute later Barcelona make it 2-0 after a quick counter attack in which 3 Barca players find themselves against 2 Valencia defenders and Xavi scores while being all alone and unchallenged by anyone.

From there the match was basically over and Barcelona had few more tries and chances, but the match ended 2-0 for Barcelona after a deserved victory in which Valencia CF had very little chances of even drawing and not to mention winning.

Player Ratings:

Diego (MotM) 7.5 - Man of the match even though the saves weren't that hard to make, but he did have quite a lot of them so he gets a good score and man of the match.

Miguel 5 - Dealt with most of what came from Cuenca and Abidal and not overly troubled.

Rami 4 - Terrible night from the Frenchmen as he made few huge blunders and only gets a reasonable 4 because he actually did make few decent tackles and blocks.

Ruiz 4 - Same as Rami. Was better in the first half, but as if not to let Rami look bad did the same blunders Rami did in the first half.

Alba 6.5 - Actually good performance on an individual level and had few good runs forward that if he had a little bit more luck could have converted.

Albelda 6 - Good match from the veteran and steady as always and simple in his play.

Banega 5 - Was overrun in midfield and had no chance against Xavi and Thiago. Some cheap and inaccurate passes as well.

Feghuoli 5 - Started well and was involved in some attacks, but got himself taken out with two yellows after a stupid and needless foul on Puyol in Barcelona's half.

Jonas 5.5 - Not too involved and didn't drop deeper to try and help the midfield. Had two good plays with a pass to Alba and a good velley shot, but he was too invisible to get a better score.

Mathieu 5 - Very ineffective in attack as he was by formation the more forward of him and Alba, but failed to do anything of note and wasn't very effective in defense as well.

Aduriz 5.5 - Had few decent chances, but he failed to convert them reacting rather poorly in all of them. Got in good positions though, but it just didn't go his way.

Subs:

Tino 5 - Did not offer anything over Banega and was as isolated and ineffective as Banega before him.

Piatti 5 - Could not make any difference.

Parejo N/A - not enough time.