Sevilla 2 - 1 Valencia
Well, I'll be honest - by far the worst performance the whole season. There have been plenty matches where Valencia wasn't supposed to drop points, but still did, but here, well, 2-1 doesn't exactly reflect the game.
First, decision to bench Banega was a terrible one, IMO. In the first half, both teams had no spark, but Sevilla did look as a better side and they did look likely to score.. so they did. Valencia up till introduction of Banega created nothing... ABSOLUTELY nothing. Villa didn't even get the ball, Pablo and Mata were non-existant, Silva tried something, but just couldn't pull it off. The defence also looked very shaky.
The 2nd half was much better, but still not nearly enough to draw (even though the last 20 mins were almost the usual Valencia we've seen. You would expect a fast paced, interesting, attacking football with lots of flair, when teams have players like Navas, Villa, Silva, Mata, Capel, Pablo, Banega, Kanoute and etc. However, some were benched, most of them didn't show up and only Navas actually was seen through-out the game. His assist was superb, but Negredo's goal was even better.
All in all, there was lots of stuff left to be desired. Valencia didn't show up until the last 20 minutes and you don't do that. Emery will have lots of work to do till the next match.
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