Last update 6 May, 2024 by Alberto Llopis
What are the toughest defeats in the history of Valencia? David Albelda spoke, he 1 May 2014, at the conclusion of the match between Valencia and Sevilla that the Valencians had fallen in the most unfair way. It's not the first time, indeed, that bad luck or the chances of fate cross the picture Mestalla. Europe has been particularly hard on the black and white, but also a league match some brought some bad shot. We remember the worst.
What are the toughest defeats in the history of Valencia?
1- Valencia-Bayern Munich: the summum of bad luck. With a Champions League game, the title was closer than ever. Few saw and he was going to miss the final due to the success of Santi Cañizares on penalties. However, the fish was not sold and nothing helped stop the manchego goal up three penalties in the game. That mistake by Pellegrino in the decisive penalty, flooded all the Valencians with tears. It's for obvious reasons, the number 1 in the list of the toughest defeats in the history of Valencia.
2- Valencia-Seville: It was a European semifinal and had done the hardest, build a 2-0. With good game, with a step it endlessly encouraging got a 3-0 classifying the Pizzi. The dream had come true and Benfica expected in Turin. However, half minute to five extension fulfilled happened mazazo. M´Bia he scored a goal that left the team out. It was not a defeat in the match but in the tie. And it was the hardest because of everything it meant for a team and a fan., that was already seen in the final.
3- Barcelona-Valencia: as valencianistas not remember what happened one 17 June year 2001, just 25 days after what happened against Bayern. Valencia had played in the Nou Camp qualifying for the next Champions League against Barcelona. Everything was controlled with a tie 2. All until the last minute, damn that last minute, Rivaldo a Chilean from outside the area that went into the top corner of Canizares was invented. Again tragedy and tears.
4- Karlsruhe- Valencia: and 2 November 1993 Valencia would suffer one of the most humiliating defeats in their history. Germany, Karlsruhe and a certain Edgar Schmitt never forget. They arrived with a 3-1 in favor reaped in Mestalla but the final result, was a 7-0 blunt, clear and hard that eliminated the che from UEFA and that marked a negative turning point for the rest of the course.
5- Barcelona-Valencia: the season 1985-86 was a hell and that game was the culmination of the thorny path. It was a 3-0 that sent the Valencian team to the Second Division after decades in the Spanish First Division. The worst of the worst even more so when Betis and Cádiz signed a tie that clearly interested both parties.
Other defeats that marked the history of Valencia
Of course, there were more games lousy memory. Cup final against Depor, the eliminations against Inter, the first Champions League final lost against Real Madrid for 3.0 in Paris or against Chelsea. All of them defeats that remained stuck in the memory of the Valencian fans and that remained in history as part of the toughest defeats in the history of Valencia CF.
And which ones do you remember??, what was it for you the hardest defeat in the history of Valencia?