this match was sort of in the shadows because of the blockbuster event going on in the san siro but in truth it was an equally entertaining match with quite a lot of chances created and 2 very good finishes...one of them coming from the LEGENDARY raul gonzales....who is the highest ever goal scorer in european competitions!...
valencia were without juan mata for this 1 and joaquin was left on the bench....they went with a 4-3-3 system where guaita started b/w the sticks and infront of him were miguel, navarro(captain), ricardo costa and mathieu in defence...with everbanega, topal and costa in midfield and dominguez, soldado and adruiz up front....this time around last year valencia wouldv called up on stars like world cup winners david villa and david silva but unfortunately due to financial reasons those two had to be sold....the side still however has been doing pretty good so far under unai emery..
schalke however were able to start their usual 4-4-2 line up with german no.1 manuel neuer(Captain) in goal....uchida, howedes, metzelder and schmitz in defence....farfan, kluge, matip and jurado in the mid while huntelaar and raul started up front...this game was being looked forward to as rauls return to spain for the first time since leaving real madrid last summer!...
th game started well and huntelaar had a glorious oppurtunity to put the german side in front in the 9th min of the game but completely mis-timed his volley from 6 yards out!...valencia continued to attack after that and took the advantage on th 17th min when mathieu made a brilliant run down the left hand side and crossed th ball in towards soldado who made no mistake with an awesome finish to put the ball beyond the german keeper in to the far corner!....terrific football from the spanish who till that point hadn really created any proper chance....
valencia kept it strong at the back for the rest of the half and the full backs kept getting forward which was creating a prob for the schalke defence!...they kept chugging away at the defence and there were quite a few scares for neuer with valencia unlucky not to have scored a few more!
SECOND HALF
the second half started without any changes to th sides and in pretty much the same manner as the first ended with valencia attacking!...however raul did get an opportunity to equalize when neuer sent a long goal-kick towards him which he controlled well but couldn get enough power on his right-footed strike to seriously trouble neuer!....the game just carried on chances were created by both sides until the 63rd min when adruiz broke free on the left hand side, put a cross in towards th raul who took a fine touch before terrificly slotting the ball into the far corner!....it was his 71st goal in european competitions!....quite a remarkable feat!...
all in all a memorable night for raul on his return to spain and schalke will be optimistic going into th second leg cox of that away goal they have!
valencia were without juan mata for this 1 and joaquin was left on the bench....they went with a 4-3-3 system where guaita started b/w the sticks and infront of him were miguel, navarro(captain), ricardo costa and mathieu in defence...with everbanega, topal and costa in midfield and dominguez, soldado and adruiz up front....this time around last year valencia wouldv called up on stars like world cup winners david villa and david silva but unfortunately due to financial reasons those two had to be sold....the side still however has been doing pretty good so far under unai emery..
schalke however were able to start their usual 4-4-2 line up with german no.1 manuel neuer(Captain) in goal....uchida, howedes, metzelder and schmitz in defence....farfan, kluge, matip and jurado in the mid while huntelaar and raul started up front...this game was being looked forward to as rauls return to spain for the first time since leaving real madrid last summer!...
th game started well and huntelaar had a glorious oppurtunity to put the german side in front in the 9th min of the game but completely mis-timed his volley from 6 yards out!...valencia continued to attack after that and took the advantage on th 17th min when mathieu made a brilliant run down the left hand side and crossed th ball in towards soldado who made no mistake with an awesome finish to put the ball beyond the german keeper in to the far corner!....terrific football from the spanish who till that point hadn really created any proper chance....
valencia kept it strong at the back for the rest of the half and the full backs kept getting forward which was creating a prob for the schalke defence!...they kept chugging away at the defence and there were quite a few scares for neuer with valencia unlucky not to have scored a few more!
SECOND HALF
the second half started without any changes to th sides and in pretty much the same manner as the first ended with valencia attacking!...however raul did get an opportunity to equalize when neuer sent a long goal-kick towards him which he controlled well but couldn get enough power on his right-footed strike to seriously trouble neuer!....the game just carried on chances were created by both sides until the 63rd min when adruiz broke free on the left hand side, put a cross in towards th raul who took a fine touch before terrificly slotting the ball into the far corner!....it was his 71st goal in european competitions!....quite a remarkable feat!...
all in all a memorable night for raul on his return to spain and schalke will be optimistic going into th second leg cox of that away goal they have!
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