FilGoal | News | “The Spanish League has balanced with Coman.” Valencia upsets Barcelona and spoils Messi’s celebration

Barcelona tied Valencia at home with two goals for each team at the Camp Nou on matchday 14 of the Spanish league.

Mokhtar DiCapi advanced to Valencia, then Leo Messi tied for Barcelona, ​​and Ronald Araujo added the second goal for the owners of the field, before Maxi Gomes tied for the bat.

Raise Barcelona’s score to 21 points in fifth place out of 13 games, one point behind Villarreal, who have played the same number of games so far.

Valencia raised their score to 15 points in 12th place out of 14 games, 4 points behind relegation positions.

Barcelona’s winning streak in La Liga ended in two games, after beating Valladolid and Real Sociedad last week.

For their part, Valencia have only won once in their last 10 games, at the expense of Real Madrid by four.

Albida’s wish fulfilled

David Albida, one of Valencia’s biggest stars of the 2000s, tweeted in January 2014, sarcastically wishing Koeman as Barcelona coach.

Albida said at the time: “I see a lot of people talking about Coman. I hope he coaches Barcelona so that the Spanish League is balanced.”

Albida was referring in his tweet to Coman’s disastrous stint with Valencia for several months during the 2007/2008 season, when he led him to the Copa del Rey title, but he almost landed with bats if he was not caught at the right time.

Now that Coman takes over at Barcelona, ​​the Spanish league is more balanced, as the Catalan leader has not entered the gold box at any point this season so far.

Offensive boldness

Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman promoted the formation in an offensive way, relying on Sergio Busquets only as a pivot in the center of the field, with Felipe Coutinho and Pedri in front, while keeping Frenkie de Jong and Miralem Pjanic in the dock.

He also continued to count on the young duo: Oscar Mengesa and Ronald Araujo in the depth of the defense at the expense of the French Clement Longleate and Samuel Umtiti.

On the other hand, Valencia coach Xabi Gracia pushed Portuguese Gonçalo Gedic and Uruguayan Maxi Gómez to the front.

Valencia have changed their formation for the 78th consecutive game under the direction of 4 different coaches throughout this period.

This match is the first in the history of the Spanish League to see the presence of two players from the United States of America in the starting eleven, with the participation of Sergio Dest, Barcelona’s right-back, and Valencia’s right-back , Yunus Musa.

Run fire

The first part was very daring on the part of Valencia, who have a complicated situation in the table, threatening the owners of the field on more than one occasion.

The first risk hit Mark-Andre ter Stegen’s goal in the 27th minute, when a misunderstanding caused the ball to pass in front of Maxi and Musa in strange ways, to reach José Gaya and Denis Cheryshev, and the last two fired in the same moment in the manner of Captain Majid and Yassin, but the German archer responded.

Ter Stegen continued to shine in the 29th minute by banishing Carlos Soler’s shot from outside the penalty area.

Valencia’s attacks were translated into a definitive goal in the 30th minute when Soler executed a corner kick, which was picked up by Frenchman DiCapi with his head into the net after completely escaping the control of his compatriot Antoine Griezmann.

Diakabe scored his first goal since scoring against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium in May 2019.

Barcelona also conceded the fourth goal from a corner kick this season in the Spanish League, and is the team that receives the most goals from corners in equal parts with Huesca.

Barcelona have received just 13 corner kicks this season, the same number of goals they have conceded on corner kicks in the last 3 seasons combined.

Valencia coach Gracia had to make his first substitution in the 43rd minute by inserting Alex Blanco in the place of the injured Moussa.

Before Ter Stegen reappeared and saved a confirmed goal in the 45th minute, with a Maxi header from close range.

The attack rebounded to the other side, and Griezmann scored a penalty after José Luis Gaia was blocked.

Referee Alejandro Hernández Hernández was the most famous red card in the face of the Valencia captain, but he backed off when he reviewed the shot on video technology, and settled for a yellow card.

Leo Messi went ahead in the fourth minute of injury time in the first half and failed to translate the penalty when Jaume faced Dominic.

But Jordi Alba broke the penalty area quickly and followed the ball and sent it a center that collided with the Valencia defense and reached Messi, who deposited the net effortlessly.

Messi scored his 643rd goal in a Barcelona shirt, equaling Pelé’s record for number of goals with a team shirt he achieved with Santos.

Messi also scored his 23rd header goal in his career with Barcelona, ​​the first since March 1, 2017 when he headed the Sporting Gijón nets, having stopped a series of 152 consecutive goals scored with his foot.

Messi also scored his 29th goal against Valencia in 35 games against him.

The goal is the 800 number in the history of official confrontations between Barcelona and Valencia in various tournaments.

Messi equaled his rival, Cristiano Ronaldo, as more than one penalty in the history of the Spanish League, with 72 shots.

Messi also became the second player to miss penalties in the history of the Spanish League, with 13 shots, as did Kenny, behind the Mexican Ojo Sánchez, who missed 15 shots.

Between the two halves, Koeman intervened and removed the rickety Busquets, replacing him with de Jong in the center of the Barca field.

The excitement continues

Valencia’s lightning attacks didn’t stop, and Russia’s Cheryshev was about to score the second goal for the bat after the Swede’s wonderful exit in the 49th minute, but the former Real Madrid winger strangely missed the goal.

The penalty came in the 53rd minute when Araujo scored the goal to lead Barcelona with a wonderful shot at the bird from inside the penalty area.

The goal is Araujo’s first for Barcelona’s first team since his promotion to it last season.

Barcelona tried to double the score in the 55th minute with a header from Danish Martin Braithwaite, but Jaume kept it off the goal line with great brilliance.

The excitement reached its climax when Valencia drew with Maxi in the 69th minute after a magnificent pass from Giddesh and a perfect cross from Gaia.

Gaia had faced Barcelona 3 times in Valencia and managed to score in all of them, scoring his fifth overall goal against Barcelona.

For his part, Barcelona defender Oscar Mengesa tried to make up for the mistake of not looking at Maxi on the goal kick, so he advanced in the 70th minute and fired a powerful shot that Jaume blocked.

Then Coutinho shot hard in the 72nd minute, but Jaume arrived on time and responded again.

Coman made his second change in the minute and inserted Francisco Trinkau in place of Griezmann in the present absent.

Coutinho hit again in the 78th minute a ball that was dragging, but shortly after it went through the post.

Before Coman made his weirdest change by taking out Coutinho and introducing Clement Longley, to make the game 3-4-3.

Leo Messi had the opportunity to score the victory in the 83rd minute, but his free kick went straight over the crossbar.

Then Pjanic came in in the 86th minute instead of Pedri, with nothing new happening for the rest of the game.