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Match report
Football Elite
Division 1: Round 9 (setup 3, season 10)
Valencia
v.
FC Basel
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
22
Overall form:
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José Manuel REINA Páez71DIEGO Alves Carreira
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
12
Overall form:
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Álvaro ARBELOA Coca2Daniel Alves da Silva, DANI ALVES
Juan Manuel VARGAS Risco3JORDI ALBA Ramos
Rafael VAN DER VAART4Andrea PIRLO
Mikel SAN JOSE Dominguez5DANTE Bonfim Costa Santos
Rafael Alcântara do Nascimento, RAFINHA66Juan Francisco Torres Belén, JUANFRAN
Aaron LENNON777Alessandro FLORENZI
Javier Matías PASTORE787James David RODRÍGUEZ Rubio
Javier HERNÁNDEZ Balcázar79Zlatan IBRAHIMOVIC
Paulo Luiz Beraldo Santos, PAULINHO7107Blaise MATUIDI
Ángelo José HENRÍQUEZ Iturra6116Domenico BERARDI
Manager
Anthony KNOCKAERT12WILLIAN Borges da Silva
Nick MARSMAN13ENES Ünal
Sebastian POLTER14Francisco Román Alarcón Suárez, ISCO
Javier Manquillo Gaitán, JAVI MANQUILLO157Stephan LICHTSTEINER
Diego PEROTTI16Kevin STROOTMAN

Valencia 2 FC Basel 1
(Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 33,210, Stadium: Mestalla, Referee: Armand ANCION 6, TV: highlights)
20 Hernández, 27 LennonScorers9 Dante
Substitutions67 Pirlo <=> Lichtsteiner
Sendings off
59 Van Der Vaart, 72 HenríquezBookings
3Corners6
4Fouls6
3Offsides2
4Shots on5
7Shots off11
11Total shots16
2Shots saved4
49%Possession51%
Man of the match: Daniel Alves da Silva, DANI ALVES
5HERNÁNDEZ's shot was well held by the 'keeper.
9A wonderful save prevented JORDI ALBA from scoring a good goal.
9GOAL!! DANTE waltzed forward, looked up and thundered a shot into the Valencia net. (1-0 FC Basel)
16BERARDI flicked a looping shot wide from long range.
18A penalty box scramble resulted in RODRÍGUEZ tapping a low shot over.
20GOAL!! A perfect ball from VARGAS left VAN DER VAART in the clear, he made DIEGO commit himself before touching the ball to HERNÁNDEZ to score. (1-1)
23VAN DER VAART beat DANTE and whacked the ball to HENRÍQUEZ who dragged his shot wide.
27GOAL!! An imaginative RAFINHA played a wonderful ball down the left to LENNON who seemingly in an offside position went on to easily score. (2-1 Valencia)
35HERNÁNDEZ rasped the ball through a ruck of players but DIEGO was a match for it as he dived to his right.
36An inswinging corner was fired into the arms of the Valencia 'keeper by BERARDI.
45+3IBRAHIMOVIC shot over.
 
48The motionless Valencia 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from PASTORE dropped just wide.
58A cross from RODRÍGUEZ left JUANFRAN in plenty of space but he snapped at his shot.
59VAN DER VAART booked for violent conduct.
68The 'keeper did well to hold onto a fierce strike from RODRÍGUEZ.
70A corner was collected by IBRAHIMOVIC who flicked the ball over the bar.
71A fine ball from DANI ALVES on the left was collected by JORDI ALBA who sliced his effort inches over.
72The referee cautions HENRÍQUEZ.
75ARBELOA was put clear by PAULINHO and he raced past DIEGO but glanced his shot over the bar.
83A lovely effort from LICHTSTEINER scraped the outside of the post.
85A header by RODRÍGUEZ at the far post was easily collected by REINA.
90A free-kick from HERNÁNDEZ raced inches over.