Diego Alves had lacked the character the Valencia

When you get a team like Chelsea have to take precautions in line with the entity's rival, but the distance that separates them from excessive respect can be too short. The final feeling after the tie between Valencia and Chelsea sounds like Valencia salvaged a point, but the team was not inferior to ché English except for one quarter of an hour in which Diego Alves had one of the best performances seen lately in a goalkeeper .

Valencia, with several changes in respect to the previous eleven league match against Sevilla which conceded the first defeat of the season, was having a ball that Chelsea did not seem to want to possess. The mutual respect and fear of risk was the general tone of a first half in which football was less in the second. However, when Valencia got a slower speed to his game, especially down the left or through the apparitions of Pablo Hernandez, or channels Banega was when Chelsea showed more distress. Thus came an opportunity for Paul Jordi Alba center that crashed into the side netting.

However, one of the first moves highlights was a clear penalty Rami Torres to the referee missed. The Frenchman, who completed another great meeting, had to come to the rescue after a transfer back Albelda unclassifiable, but ran laps. Just over the London club made ​​in the first half. No football in midfield and Torres Mata and unnoticed in attack, Villas-Boas came to the area just Valencia. That's right: his stool, with Anelka, Meireles, Drogba or Kalou instilled respect. The first half ended with the feel of a slightly higher than Valencia might have hurt his rival of having put a gear.

But the start of the second half was another matter, and in his first fifteen minutes saw the team who did most to win, if only for those fifteen minutes. The group left the blue house with the intention to take all three points in Mestalla, but their plans did not fit the interventions of a janitor who may not know much, but whose name will remember from now on. In Genk already know . Mano Menezes should also have your name on the agenda before a hesitant Julius Caesar. The problem is that league will be an alternate but surprise is that Guaita is also offering a high level.

Diego Alves had four great merits interventions, each one better than the last. The first came in a minute frenzy where, after stopping a header from Torres where the ball was ready to kiss the net, his team launched the counterattack and he failed to finish Soldier head when Cech was already beaten. In subsequent interventions unhinged again and your fellow Ramires Torres and David Luiz. However, an inmate of the right Malouda, Lampard managed to beat him and clear some of the questions looming over their presence in the team.

After a poor first half and quarter of an hour which was much higher than its rival, Chelsea were ahead on the scoreboard. Valencia was stretched after the goal and managed to get the English team in its field with the help of Piatti and Jonas, who came off the bench. The Villas-Boas team seemed content to the small advantage gained. Channels showed signs of its kind and proved to be comfortable at the Mestalla, and a great pass into the box well read by the diagonal of Piatti, Argentina was close to signing tables.

But then came the gift of Kalou, who starred in an incomprehensible inexplicable penalty with one hand. Probably await the Ivorian some difficult days in the islands. Soldado not miss this and set the maximum penalty. There was still time for another good stop from Alves in a one on one with Anelka. The match ended with a standing ovation from Mestalla and lacmnaasnaind Mataensación that Valencia won a point and Chelsea lost two, but this was a game in which the English team played the best minutes and Valencia could have taken have been more courageous in its bid.

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