The extreme Luis Rioja, who has only been there for a month Valenciaunderstood perfectly this Saturday the constant that has been repeated in the club for some time now. five years. Of the 36 victories at home in their last 90 home games, already a bad percentage for the club’s history, Valencia goes to only 15 wins as a visitor, barely 18% of the total, which makes any objective other than fighting for maintain the category.
Valencia has lost 55 of the last 90 away games playedmore than 58% of the time he has had to travel to visit a First Division field, a situation that leads the veterans of the squad to ally with Rubén Baraja, who already highlighted after the game that if Valencia is in decline after the first eight days, it is “because he deserves it.”
“Anxiety We don’t have to have any, but we have to work a lot mentally, because our behavior at Mestalla is different. Away from Mestalla it is the other way around, we are a team that has nothing to do with each other and this we have to solve it now,” Rioja said seconds after finishing the match in Anoeta, along the same lines as Baraja.
Valencia still He doesn’t know what it’s like to score away from home.since they have lost the four games they have played away, which sinks them in the standings and invites the team to visit the relegation zone for the sixth time in these first eight days of the League.
For Riojathe change is mental: “Going out to Mestalla with your audience and with a spectacular atmosphere…it is a fan that gives its all for its team. Seeing all those people who do their best for a shield fills you with energy, but away from home We have to be a much more compact and aggressive team,” commented Rioja.
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“We have to work a lot and not on the grass. It is an important mental job,” insisted Rioja, who commented that at home they have deserved to win all the games they have played, but that away from home Valencia does not give a good image at all.
“This (the defeat against Real) is a painful defeat, bulging. I think that in the first half we were not there, all the pressures overcame us and we had zero chance of being in the game. In the second half, we were better, but we gave away 2-0 and 3-0. It is a defeat that hurts. It seems like it doesn’t matter, but it damages the image and self-esteem,” Rioja insisted.