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 | 10 years without a home win for Valencia vs Barca, assistant will try to stop the series23-11-2017 |
A few days before the top-level derby in the Primera Division between the second-placed Valencia and the Barcelona leader, the online edition of the Mark has paid special attention to the long batch of bats without home success over the Catalonians in the championship. For the last time, it happened more than 10 years ago - on February 18, 2007, Los Che, won 2:1 at Mestya.
At that meeting, Valencia`s mentor was the current coach of Espanyol - Kicke Sanchez Flores. After that, seven different specialists failed to find a way to beat Barca in front of fans of the bats, although the team achieved two successes at Cam Nou in 2014 (3:2) and 2016 (2:1). During this 10-year period, Valencia`s team was led by a total of 13 different coaches. Ronald Kumman, Voro, Unai Emery, Ernesto Valverde, Miroslav Dukic and Nuno had a chance to lead Los Cheras against the Mestaya Barca, but they did not succeed. On Sunday night, the current batsman, Marcellino, who has done an amazing job so far, bringing the team to 9 wins (8 consecutive) in 12 games and second in La Liga, will not even be on the bench. The 52-year-old specialist will look at the stands from the stands after being punished for two fights. Instead, Assistant Ruben Uria will lead the team near the touchline. The assistant will not for the first time become the chief executive of the coaching staff, having previously assumed the conductor in such situations, doing well. In fact, Uriah`s statistics, when he replaced the senior coach (4 cases), shows that he has more wins than draws and losses. A few years ago, the specialist even led Valencia to a 3-0 win over Real Madrid.