Valencia beat Granada

Valencia 1-0 Granada

This past weekend Valencia squared off against Granada CF. Valencia went into the match huge favorites playing at home against newly promoted Granada. The match did not satisfy the expectations of a great game, and outside of the first few minutes the match was largely uneventful.

Valencia started very well, as expected, controlling possession and taking the game to Granada. This all culminated with Sergio Canales’s first goal wearing VCF colors. The goal was a half chance at best (perhaps better goalkeeping would’ve kept the score level). After some neat interplay at the top of the box, Pablo Piatti back heeled a pass to Canales, whose initial touch was not the best, but was able to make some space for himself and unleashed a left footed blast at goal. The shot whizzed just past Granada goalkeeper Roberto and tucked itself in at the bottom right corner of the net. Canales looked delighted to have finally gotten off the mark for his new club. That was the only goal of the game as

Valencia could not finish much better than that and Granada found chances hard to come by.

Valencia will be happy with the win, but they will be wondering how they did not score more and better outclass their much weaker opposition on the day.

Goals: Sergio Canales (4th min)

Lineups

Valencia CF: Vicente Guaita; Miguel Brito, Adil Rami, Víctor Ruiz, Jeremy Mathieu; Hedwidges Maduro (David Albelda 75th min), Éver Banega; Pablo Hernandez (Jonas 53rd min), Sergio Canales, Pablo Piatti (Sofiane Feghouli 63rd min); Roberto Soldado

Granada CF: Roberto; Nyom, Íñigo López, Mainz, Siqueira (Jaime 85th min); Mollo (Martins 77th min), Yebda (Uche 77th min), Mikel Rico, Fran Rico, Dani Benítez; Geijo

By: David Wall