Valencia CF: Valencia is choked on the Champions League
Valencia CFTOMarcelino's match the worst historic start and need a miracle to be in the second round
TOValencia is becoming the Champions League.When the group stage of the maximum continental competition reaches its equator, the numbers of Marcellin's team are very poor. Obliging the miracle to be in the eighth and smell of Europa League.It is true that the Mestalla squad faced the most complicated group of its twelve competitions in Champions (one in the extinct European Cup), but the draw and the image shown before the Young Boys Swiss make it clear that the competition is coming greatto this team. Becausehe has equaled the worst start of his history in the Champions League.
With only two points after three games, Valenciais copying the 2011-12 Champions numbers. That season, the Valencians were third group and in the first three daysthey signed two draws against Genk and Chelsea and a defeat against Leverkusen. Valencia fell to Europa League and reached the semifinals in a tie to be rememberedfor the not-shot penalty from Juanito to Zigic.
Valencia have remained in the group stage of the Champions Leaguein four of its eleven previous competitions (2004-05, 2007-08, 2011-12 and 2015-16), when passing the round the common denominator was thatalways reached the fourth day with a minimum of four points in the locker. When he added less he went to the streets except for 2015-16, the first of Lim, who arrived with six points on the fourth day, but fell to the Europa League after losing consecutively against Genk, Zenit and Lyon .
TheValencia's worst competition in the Champions League was in the 2007-08 seasonWhen I was last in the group I was framed with Schalke 04, Rosenborg and Chelsea. In that edition,reached the middle of the group stage with three points, one morethat now.