Valencia is in full conversion to arm itself in the battle for permanence and yesterday it was able to keep a leader who was left with ten players in tension without getting anything to fall on his side. Neither the team was able to take advantage of its chances, as few as those of its rival, nor did Alberola Rojas see a penalty in Kessié's demolition of Fran Pérez in the 85th minute. Nor did the VAR notify him to check the contact, something that in the Valencian dressing room was not understood.
"I am surprised that I am not going to see him because the contact seems clear," said Rubén Baraja. «He has given me the feeling of what he was going to whistle, because there has been contact. But it will be our turn again," said Hugo Guillamón timidly. The official voice of the club was the football director, Miguel Ángel Corona. «If it was not a penalty, a corner was invented because Kessie did not touch the ball. That is why the VAR has arrived, to review the plays. To protest? What we are going to do is continue competing and these details are diminishing you, because it was a clear chance of scoring.
Valencia, penultimate in the standings and who saw in that play the possibility of getting something positive at the Camp Nou, complains with a small mouth. The harsh four-game ban that Gayà received for criticizing an arbitration last season, the only one so far in Spanish football, still stings. Nor is it forgotten that the club has the RFEF in court for the change in format and economic distribution of the Super Cup. In the shadow of the suspicion aired by the Negreira case is added the club's cold relationship with Rubiales.
On the Barça side, who experienced an expulsion that Araujo recognizes as fair and a penalty, which Valencia admits, at the hands of Guillamón, Kessié's move does not seem controversial. "For me it's a duel and seeing the play repeated I think it's not a penalty," Xavi assured. His priority was to breathe after a difficult game at least seven points behind Real Madrid.
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