It was a risk that Ruben Baraja I knew I was going to run. The final stretch of the season Valencia, just when it flirted with Europe, it ended up being a disaster. This team, with salvation in its pocket for a long time, tried to press the accelerator and pursue the dream they had in the locker room, but the engine seized. The brave and feisty Valencia ran out of strength and its seams were visible against the Betis and the Gironawho won comfortably at Mestalla 1-3, but also against the Ray and the Alavés.
Nobody came to his rescue in January, when Baraja was crying out for reinforcements for his fifth team, aware that exhaustion could set in, even more so when they lost players like Paulista o Diakhaby. The team was weaker but the club didn’t listen, Peter Lim it did not. That’s why yesterday around 6,000 people decided to stay outside Mestalla and protest against the management that suffocates them. The groups that called for the protest, led by Libertad VCFthey wanted an iconic image of the emptying like the one they achieved against Celta in 2022, but it did not happen.
Many did not enter, 36,138 did, according to official data. It is the worst entry of the season because there was less attendance, but there was no image and there was some confrontation between those who were outside and those inside. The yellow banners of Lim go home They saw each other inside and outside, accompanied by others like We will remove you from our club.
Meanwhile, the season closed with the team crashing against the woodwork, making mistakes and seeing how Savio, Dovbyk and Tsygankov, forcing Yarek’s mistake, put Valencia in its place since Meriton arrived 10 years ago: middle table and very far from Europe.
The worst news was injury of José Luis Gayà, who was not a starter and barely lasted 13 minutes on the field before the quadriceps gave him a warning again. The Eurocup is in the air.
There is still the visit to Celta, but Mestalla has already been able to visualize what life can be like from August onwards. Shuffle, too.