Highlights: Villarreal 2-0 Valencia
by siempre_riquelme on May 9, 2010 3:53 AM CEST
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PrintNice win, but it may ring hollow at season's end. Of note: Ibagaza should stick around next season, and Cani may be the most improved player in the Garrido era.
Some news clips:
- A team recaps from the club website and Marca.
- The B team lost 2-5 to Las Palmas after Juan Carlos was sent off in 9'. Only their second home loss all season. Game recaps from the club website and Marca.
Scenarios to make Europe:
- Beat Getafe's result (away to Atletico) next weekend. In this case, we would finish in 6th place. This is the simplest and most likely scenario (even if rather unlikely).
- To qualify as the 7th-place finisher, Sevilla would have to finish 5th in La Liga, win the Copa del Rey, and Fulham would have to win the Europa League. Sounds rather arcane, but essentially Atletico needs to finish outside of Europe and Mallorca must qualify for the Champions League. This scenario may be moot by midweek.
It will be a long summer if Villarreal fails to qualify for Europe. Player sales and budget cuts are coming, so it would be nice to end the season on a positive note. At a minimum, we need to do our part next weekend in Zaragoza (without Llorente and Capdevila).
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Villarreal C 2-0 Alicante B
Villarreal C finish 4th in the league and earn a place in the play offs for promotion to Segunda B.
by Kenez on May 9, 2010 8:58 PM CEST reply actions
sidarth in A Team, Ariel Ibagaza, B Team, Commentary, Highlights, La Liga, Rubén Cani
Nice win, but it may ring hollow at season’s end.
Europe Europe Europe, what a broken record? Anyway, Europa Leagie if I am not mistaken is not that much monies v CL.
So, Why was this season a mess?
1) Managment hired someone who was opposite to:
a) Playing style of Villarreal
b) Too many players which were backbone of past succes , ended up being benched.
c) New Manager lacked abilty oto motivate the players in hand under his system
d) Ibazgaza, Gonzalo, Angel didn’t fit into Valverde System
2) Form of players was up and down.
3) If Villarreal Management had the balls, they should have fired Valverde earlier and never went past 4-1 loss to Valnecia.
4) Garrido maybe a rookie, atleast he can motivate the players and correct his mistakes
and football played wasn’t bad either.
Oh Well.
Then Again, what Do I know.
by Aquafina on May 10, 2010 5:32 AM CEST reply actions
I think Valverde’s man management skills were poor and that he actually demotivated players.
Remember that he excluded Fuentes from the start, preferred Kiko to Gonzalo, left Bruno out for much of the time. Then he was responsible for Eguren wanting to move away. Different players need different approaches to get the best out of them.
by Kenez on May 10, 2010 9:34 PM CEST up reply actions
Compare to CL monies, Europa league monies is peanuts.
In short, the Europa League winners will get around £6.5m in prize money and TV cash. The Champions’ Leauge winners get the thick end of £50m.
Teams that do not make it past the group phase in the Europa League make an average of £800,000 each prize money, amassed via payments just for being there (£531,000), for each group win (£106,000) and for each draw (£53,000).
Those teams reaching the last 32 get an extra £159,000,
the last 16 get £270,000 more again,
the last eight £319,000,
the last four £558,000,
the runners-up £1.77m and the winners £2.65m.
To clubs of Villa’s stature that is not a lot of money these days, and it is not all bankable because taking part in Europe costs money.
by Aquafina on May 10, 2010 5:42 AM CEST reply actions
This is an interesting point. I’ll have a post up about it later this week. Good comment, Aquafina.
by sidarth on May 10, 2010 8:20 PM CEST up reply actions
Article here suggests that Villarreal earned around €2.5m from this years competition.
http://www.elperiodicomediterraneo.com/noticias/noticia.asp?pkid=559755
by Kenez on May 11, 2010 10:28 AM CEST up reply actions
Villarreal’s final match at Zaragoza will kick off at 20:00 (CET) on Saturday 15th May. The Atletico v Getafe match will also start at the same time.
by Kenez on May 10, 2010 11:09 AM CEST reply actions
Another doubleheader this week:
Murcia- Villarreal B at 12 noon Eastern Time on Saturday; Zaragoza-Villarreal at 2 pm.
by sidarth on May 10, 2010 8:19 PM CEST up reply actions
da jackson report
da win is da win
capdevila bit dump w/comments 2x to da ref. true teh refs been terrible, but dump thing 2 get red carded
by jackson on May 10, 2010 7:32 PM CEST reply actions
First of all, how many times have we seen Llorente sent off for making similar challenges. Totally unnecessary on the touchline. Capdevila got booked for a remark to the ref and then repeated it. As an experienced player he should know better to run across the pitch to make comments to a ref.
Having said that I thought that the referee was very poor. He missed the elbow by Zigic that cut Godin’s eye. He booked Marchena early on who continued to persistently foul without further sanction. Also let several fouls by Valencia go unpunished.
by Kenez on May 10, 2010 9:42 PM CEST up reply actions
Bruno has been overlooked for the Spanish World Cup squad. However Diego Lopez, Senna and Cazorla are included in the initial 30.
by Kenez on May 10, 2010 8:15 PM CEST reply actions
if da vcf make da cl, then bruno had da outside chance
by jackson on May 12, 2010 7:03 PM CEST up reply actions
Villarreal C will face Jerez CF, second place with 89 points in Group 14 (Extremadura) Third Division, the first of three rounds that they must overcome in order to be in Second Division B next year.
The first leg will take place at the Mini Stadium on Sunday afternoon while the second leg will be played at Jerez (Badajoz) a week later.
by Kenez on May 10, 2010 8:45 PM CEST reply actions
The second yellow card shown to Capdevila has been annulled and he will now be available for the final match of the season.
by Kenez on May 11, 2010 8:43 PM CEST reply actions
lfp, worked hard v vcf this season, so many refs decision v vcf
what a joke
da refs , da velverde & few players cost da vcf da cl .
by jackson on May 12, 2010 6:57 PM CEST up reply actions
No surprise that Villarreal make Marcano available for transfer.
http://www.elperiodicomediterraneo.com/noticias/noticia.asp?pkid=560036
by Kenez on May 12, 2010 9:23 AM CEST reply actions
I actually am a bit surprised. Marcano is very young, and even after a bad season, he has plenty of potential. And doesn’t anyone else think Capdevila is in the shop window? He’s perhaps the most reliable player we have and will start on a championship-caliber team at the World Cup. I’m not sure Joan Oriol is ready to be a full-time starter next season…
by sidarth on May 12, 2010 6:12 PM CEST up reply actions
I would guess that Capdevila is very happy where he is unless he got the chance of one last big pay day. However he’s now 32, so would a big club come in for him?
No doubt Villarreal thought that Marcano had potential when they signed him but Garrido only sees him as a full back and I suppose he would prefer Joan Oriol to start as understudy to Capdevila next season.
by Kenez on May 12, 2010 8:25 PM CEST up reply actions
yes,
Atlético Madrid 2 – 1 Fulham FT
Sorry can’t support the english team or da english type of soccer
by jackson on May 12, 2010 11:25 PM CEST reply actions
A brace from Forlan in the final, of course. What a legend.
by sidarth on May 12, 2010 11:32 PM CEST up reply actions
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