You don’t have to go back too far to analyze how Valencia has fared in the Cup in recent years. A team that has had a very difficult decade but can boast of having taken a final away from Messi and Luis Suárez’s Barça.
You have to go back to 2019, when Ernesto Valverde’s Barcelona once again reached a Cup final in which they saw themselves as winners before playing it. The culé team came from a hard setback experienced three days before at Anfield.
The team then trained by Marcelino went ahead twice on the scoreboard, being tremendously superior to a Barcelona that had been too morally undermined.
The Ché team managed to go into the break winning 2-0 with goals from Kévin Gameiro and Rodrigo, they were the players chosen for the attacking point.
The second half was played in the Valencia field and the culé team was about to turn the score around. In the 73rd minute Leo Messi approached his team on the scoreboard, but it would not be enough to come back from the match.
It is curious because that match was played at the Betis stadium, a rival that Valencia will have to face today in their city.
Both teams have won their last final but that of the Valencian team is much more recent, because to find that of the Verdiblancos you have to go back to 2005. Experience is a degree, and Valencia will have to cling to history as if it were a straw it was treated
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