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Match report
Football Elite
Division 1: Round 11 (setup 3, season 8)
Valencia
v.
FC Basel
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
17
Overall form:
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José Manuel REINA Páez71Joe HART
Formation:
3-4-3
League position:
4
Overall form:
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Álvaro ARBELOA Coca727WILLIAN Borges da Silva
Juan Manuel VARGAS Risco73DANTE Bonfim Costa Santos
Rafael VAN DER VAART47Blaise MATUIDI
Mikel SAN JOSE Dominguez757Stephan LICHTSTEINER
Javier Manquillo Gaitán, JAVI MANQUILLO6THIAGO Emiliano da SILVA
Paulo Luiz Beraldo Santos, PAULINHO7Francisco Román Alarcón Suárez, ISCO
Javier Matías PASTORE787Lukas PODOLSKI
Fernando LLORENTE Torres79Ezequiel Iván LAVEZZI
Javier HERNÁNDEZ Balcázar610Andrea PIRLO
Rafael Alcântara do Nascimento, RAFINHA6117Valon BEHRAMI
ManagerMr D Spears-Gellar
Anthony KNOCKAERT12Serge GNABRY
Nick MARSMAN13Alessandro FLORENZI
Sebastian POLTER14Alessio CERCI
Diego PEROTTI15Domenico BERARDI
Ángelo José HENRÍQUEZ Iturra16Julian BRANDT

Valencia 2 FC Basel 2
(Half-time: 2-2, Attendance: 46,853, Stadium: Mestalla, Referee: Alfredo TRENTALANGE 6½)
2 Vargas, 37 PastoreScorers23 Matuidi, 34 Willian
Substitutions
Sendings off
61 LlorenteBookings
4Corners3
5Fouls21
9Offsides15
4Shots on9
12Shots off5
16Total shots14
2Shots saved5
55%Possession45%
Man of the match: Andrea PIRLO
2GOAL!! A long ball from VAN DER VAART had the FC Basel defence back-pedalling and VARGAS made the most of the opportunity with a lovely goal. (1-0 Valencia)
10ISCO made space on the right and touched the ball to MATUIDI who touched the ball over.
13A great effort from LAVEZZI scraped the top of the crossbar.
14A poor shot from LLORENTE rolled agonisingly wide.
15A penalty box meleé resulted in LLORENTE cracking the ball wide.
21A mix up in the FC Basel defence enabled PAULINHO to hit an effort over the bar.
22LLORENTE stroked a simple chance past the lefthand post.
23A twenty-five yard shot from PAULINHO caused the 'keeper little difficulty.
23GOAL!! A patient FC Basel side were rewarded with a fierce strike from MATUIDI. (1-1)
26A free-kick from LLORENTE flew over the bar.
30A strike from WILLIAN held little difficulty for the Valencia 'keeper.
34GOAL!! Unlucky ISCO hit the woodwork before WILLIAN poked the ball home as JAVI MANQUILLO failed to clear. (2-1 FC Basel)
37GOAL!! . (2-2)
 
47A perfect strike from WILLIAN was dealt with by a good stop from the Valencia 'keeper.
53WILLIAN knocked the ball to LICHTSTEINER who fired it over.
58A accurate pass found PASTORE and his right foot shot raced narrowly over.
61LLORENTE booked for arguing with the referee.
68RAFINHA was put clear by LLORENTE and he nutmegged the 'keeper but drilled his shot just beyond the far post.
71ARBELOA beat two FC Basel players and slammed a shot wide.
74REINA saved a beautiful effort from WILLIAN.
75An inswinging corner was forced into the arms of REINA by WILLIAN.
83A useful ball from PASTORE on the left bobbled toward LLORENTE who sliced his effort just wide.