Valencia saves a point at Old Trafford

Marcelino’s team draw against United de Mourinho in a very serious game in defense of the Spanish side

The Valencia signed a goalless draw in his visit to Manchester United, in an intense match, in which he played with a lot of personality, had his chances of winning and finally achieved a point that allows him to maintain his options in the group.

Marcelino opted to start by Coquelin to try to counter the offensive power of midfield Manchester, even at the cost of losing the right wing, which caused the whole attack game to turn in the left lane, in which Guedes was a headache for Antonio Valencia.

Manchester found in the Piccini band the hole to try to hurt Rashford, although the Valencia behind was very concentrated and, except five minutes of a very advanced pressure, did not go through great trouble.

The Spanish team played with a lot of personality and had several clear arrivals, always with Guedes as the protagonist, although he lacked specifying in that last pass to compromise the integrity of David De Gea’s frame.

In fact none of the two teams came to have any clear chance of goal in the first act of the game, so everything was open for the second half.

After the restart, Valencia came out with a lot of ambition and came to the British area with clarity. A Thread of Guedes from the front opened the scoring. Two good arrivals of the Valencians woke the Manchester who had his chance with a shot from Pogba in the area that bounced off the body of a defender.

The encounter gained in intensity and rhythm. Manchester decided to turn more towards the rival area and Valencia found spaces. The two Belgian strikers of each team, Batshuayi for Valencia and Lukaku for Manchester could score, but the first one missed his shot and the second one found the response of goal Neto.

The English touched to rapture in the final minutes in search of the goal of the triumph and to point it was obtained it by means of Rashford, that sent to the crossbar with a lateral fault to five minutes of the end.

The defense of Valencia was exceptional and bailed with solvency before the final siege of the Mourinho to achieve its first point and keep intact their hopes of being able to fight for the qualification for the round of 16.