Some blog news

So the month is past us and here are some of the numbers on the amount of pageviews per country. There was also more than 18.000 pageviews total for the past month of July.

Entry Pageviews:
United States 2812
United Kingdom 1413
Germany 624
Spain 442
Sweden 340
Indonesia 335
Belgium 302
Malaysia 288

Trinidad and Tobago 240
France 193

Valencia CF 1-1 FC Porto PG(2-0)

Valencia CF won the self hosted tournament Naranja or Orange, though it took penalties to do so.

It was a fun match for a preseason match, Pellegrinho starting with the strongest squad, while Porto started with a little bit possibly weaker squad than normal. Match started slowly with Valencia CF having more possession and using the speed on the flanks to penetrate Porto. The duo of Parejo and Tino Costa seemed good, with both dropping in and out of defense, so obviously no clear defensive midfield and while it seemed to work against Porto at a preseason match, its yet to be tested against strong competition in a competitive environment.

Guardado was very active on the right flank as expected and we managed to see several of his penetrating runs with good dribbles to go along with it. He did have few good crosses and decent play with Jonas, though nothing to brag about, on the other side Feghuoli was a lot more suppressed and wasn't able to influence the game as much, although he did have some good runs, especially just in the start when he managed to intercept and then steal the ball from Porto's defense. He also had one good opportunity of goal, but poor shooting skills destroyed the opportunity and one amazing cross for Soldado that should have been a goal.

The defense seemed decent, but clearly not played-in and baked so to speak, you need regular defense and players to know each other, so right now even with Pellegrinho as coach the defense seems shaky, although as a defensive unit we do seem somewhat improved.

Jonas wasn't very active and had some poor ball control and some wasted passes, so even though he scored the goal, he wasn't particularly effective. Soldado had received great cross from Feghuoli, putting him alone on goal and he completely missed the goal, that was very poor shoot and overall a very poor performance from him.

The second half exposed some more defensive mistakes, including the one that lead to the Porto goal, though Valencia CF would instantly return the favor and equalize with a good assist from Guardado for Jonas, who headed the ball into the net.

Then Viera, Bernat and Pablo came in, though not much changed and the play stayed the same. After a ton of changes on both sides the play became more chaotic and Bernat had 2 good chances, first a run alone, but failed to deliver the last pass and then a shoot opportunity, but his youth and inexperience showed.

Ultimately the match was decided on penalties in which Porto didn't score even once. Diego Alves had some comedy time though and that was fun to watch.

Didac Vila on loan to Valencia CF

Valencia CF and AC Milan have reached an agreement for a one year loan deal for Didac Vila to Valencia CF. Valencia CF have a purchase option at the end of the loan deal that is said to be 5 million euros.

Armenia Bielefel 1-1 Valencia CF

Valencia CF played its third preseason match against Armenia and only managed to get a 1-1 draw. There was no TV stream or internet stream, so all the information we got is from VCF official website and superdeporte.

According to them Valencia CF played very good and controlled the game, in the 75th minute Armenia scored a goal, but only 4 minutes later Valencia CF equalized through Feghuoli on the assist from Viera.

From what I could read and watch some of the highlights from the matches so far it seems that Viera is really playing superbly and really seems ready for action, but again the real test we'll be against Porto this Saturday at 21:30 O'clock.

DSC Arminia Bielefeld (1): Ortega, Riemer, Hübener, Jerat, Testroet, Hornig, Riese, Langemann, Kullmann, Turhan y Agyemang. También jugaron Appiah, Lorenz, Burmeister, Yesilyurt, Schütz, Klos, Salger, Rahn y Schönfeld.

Valencia CF (1): Alves, Jonas, Soldado, Barragán, Guardado, Víctor Ruiz, Pablo, Ricardo Costa, Parejo, Mathieu y Tino Costa. También jugaron Bernat, Joao Pereira, Gago, Piatti, Albelda, Viera, Alcácer, Feghouli, Quintanilla y Carlos Delgado. 

Goals: 1-0 Min. 74 Burmeister; 1-1 Min. 77 Feghouli

Here is a new Valencia CF song, I'll be adding it to the music player shortly, when I download it and convert it to mp3.

LBapuestas new Valencia CF sponsor

Valencia CF got a new sponsor today, as online casino LBapuestas signed a one year sponsorship deal with Valencia CF worth over 1 million euros. Details of the deal are not fully clear, but it seems its primarily based on set money rates with few performance based payments.

SV Rödinghausen 0-4 Valencia CF

Valencia CF second pre-season match went well with a 4-0 win over amateur league wanna be's SC Rödinghausen.

Jonas scored the first goal for Valencia CF, Piatti scored the second goal, Carles Gil and FEghuoli scored the 3rd and 4th goal on assist by Viera.

Good play by Viera, but then again it was against a really weak team and the real test will be against Porto.

Technical Details:
SV Rödinghausen (0): Saur, Schiffbanker, Buddecke, Leenemann, Arifi, Schonwalder, Ruter, Plog, Owusu-Ansah, Juarez and Kalkan. They also played Bruggemeyer, Schneck, Buba and seronegative.

Valencia CF (4): Diego Alves, Joao Pereira, Ricardo Costa, C.Delgado, Bernat, Pablo, Parejo, Tino Costa, Piatti, Jonas and Alcácer. They also played Guaita, Barragan, Quintanilla, Victor Ruiz, Mathieu, Gil Carles, Feghouli, Guardado, Viera, Soldado, Brown and Dalmau.

Goals: 25m, 0-1 Jonas; 45m, 0-2 Piatti; 57m, 0-3 Carles Gil; 86m, 0-4 Feghuoli.

Draw in Valencia CF first preseason match

Valencia CF only managed a draw in its first preseason match again Eintracht Braunschweig.

Next match is tomorrow against SV Rödinghausen.

Eintracht Braunschweig (1): Davari, Bicakcic, Dogan, Krote, Kratz, Reichel, Correia, Korte, Pfitzner, Kruppke y Ryong Pak. También jugaron Kessel, Vrancic, Boland, Bohl, Theuerkauf, Turan, Merkel, Edwini-Bonsu and Drüppel.
Valencia CF (1): Guaita, Salva Ruiz, Alex Quintanilla, Albelda, Jonas, Soldado, Barragán, Guardado, Víctor Ruiz, Pablo Hernández y Tino Costa. También jugaron Mathieu, Alves, Portu, Feghouli, Piatti, Pardo, Pereira, Ricardo Costa, Parejo, Alcácer, Bernat, Viera, Carlos Delgado and Dalmau.
Goals: 1-0 Min. 9 Dogan; 1-1 Min. 27 Jonas

There was no stream for the match and don't expect one for the next match as well.