Valencia CF and FC Barcelona meet this Saturday, December 16, at 9:00 p.m. in Mestalla in a match corresponding to matchday 17 of LaLiga EA Sports.
Xavi Hernández’s team will seek to wash away in the domestic competition the bad image it left in the Champions League with its defeat in Antwerp.
Xavi’s figure is beginning to be called into question. Above all, at the authority level. The bizarre situation that surrounded the match against Antwerp, with a call in which Araujo, Gündogan, De Jong and Lewandowski were going to stay out to rest and in which all but the Dutchman finally entered, was just the beginning.
On the other hand, Rubén Baraja’s Valencia will fight to get the three points at home against a difficult opponent. The Valencian team has to leave behind its last defeat in Getafe and has significant casualties for the match.
The president of Valencia, Layhoon Chan, assured this Thursday that the Nou Mestalla will cost more than 340 million, between what has already been built and what is missing, she stated that the club is “prepared to complete” the stadium and, although she admitted that they have not yet completed the cost calculation, he said “it’s now or never.
Valencia has invested more than 170 million euros in the stadium located on Cortes Valencianas Avenue, so the Singaporean estimates the amount that the entity will have to allocate to finish it at more than 170 million euros, of which 80 could be allocated by the CVC fund, while the rest will have to be paid by Valencia CF.
The LaLiga match between Valencia and Barcelona FC can be seen on television starting at 9:00 p.m. on Movistar.