Ronaldo netted two goals and set up another to power Real Madrid's blistering attack to a 5-0 demolition of Valencia. ...
03:24 AM, Jan 21, 2013
Valverde will miss the King's Cup quarter-final second leg against Real Madrid after being given a two-match ban. ...
09:35 AM, Jan 19, 2013
Karim Benzema opened the scoring for Real before Valencia's Jose Guardado added to his team's woes with an own goal. ...
08:02 AM, Jan 16, 2013
After the loss against Osasuna Real Madrid will be looking for a boost when they face Valencia in the Copa del Rey. ...
09:09 PM, Jan 14, 2013
Tino Costa and Roberto Soldado gave Valencia a 2-1 win against Osasuna. ...
10:07 AM, Jan 09, 2013
Madrid: Valencia have agreed to appoint Ernesto Valverde to replace Mauricio Pellegrino as their new coach until the end of the season, the Spanish club said on Monday. Pellegrino was sacked on Saturday after a 5-2 home defeat to Real Sociedad left the side 12th in La Liga. Valverde led Olympiakos Piraeus to a Greek league and Cup double last season and has extensive experience in La Liga. He has...
11:30 PM, Dec 03, 2012
Madrid: Spanish La Liga club Valencia has sacked coach Mauricio Pellegrino. Pellegrino was sacked shortly after his side's 5-2 thrashing at home to Real Sociedad Saturday, a result that came on the back of a 0-4 defeat away to Malaga just a week ago, reports Xinhua. The former Valencia defender had been in charge for 14 league matches since replacing Unai Emery at the end of last season, leading his...
12:14 PM, Dec 02, 2012
Hague: Earlier this week, Guus Hiddink declared he was enjoying "in principle" his last season as a football coach, but Thursday he downplayed that statement again. " 'In principle' says it all," the 66-year-old coach of Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala said, reports Xinhua. "I have so much fun and energy. If I'm still wanted, it may be different again." Hiddink started as coach of Anzhi this year. After 17 match...
02:26 PM, Nov 30, 2012
Valencia: A 10-man Valencia team drew 1-1 at home against last season's finalist Bayern Munich on Tuesday, a result that sent both through to the knockout stage of the Champions League. Valencia went down to 10 men in the 33rd minute after right back Antonio Barragan fouled David Alaba to receive a second yellow card. Valencia midfielder Sofiane Feghouli made it 1-0 in the 77th minute with a bouncing shot...
03:00 AM, Nov 21, 2012
Berlin: Bayern Munich holding midfielder Luiz Gustavo underwent groin surgery on Monday as his team departed for Valencia ahead of Tuesday's Champions League game, the club said. Gustavo last played in the league game against Hamburg SV two weeks ago and had been nursing the injury ever since. "The operation was successful," Bayern said in a statement. They did not say how long the Brazilian would be out of action....
10:30 PM, Nov 19, 2012
Frankfurt: Valencia have won all three Champions League matches since their opening-round loss to Bayern Munich, and the Spanish side . Bayern can take confidence in the knowledge that they have lost only once in eight encounters against Valencia, with four draws. They beat the Spanish side on penalties to lift the Champions League trophy in 2001. But in Valencia, Bayern have two draws and the one loss (3-0) in...
06:38 PM, Nov 19, 2012
Barcelona: Ten-man Valencia were held to a 1-1 draw at Valladolid on Sunday, as Mauricio Pellegrino's team remained winless in six away games in the Spanish league this season. Valencia defender Ali Cissokho opened the scoring for the visitors in the 15th minute with a header from a corner kick. But after Valladolid's Alberto Bueno hit the post, Valencia were reduced to 10 men in the 64th when Cissokho was...
09:57 PM, Nov 11, 2012
Valencia: Midfielder Sofiane Feghouli scored twice to help Valencia beat BATE Borisov 4-2 at home Wednesday and take the lead in Group F in the Champions League. Valencia jumped out to a 3-0 lead by the 51st minute and then held off a comeback attempt by the Belarusian club, which had surprisingly topped the group after three rounds. Valencia are now tied with Bayern Munich on nine points from four...
05:33 AM, Nov 08, 2012
Barcelona: Striker Aritz Aduriz scored twice to give Athletic Bilbao a 2-1 victory at Granada on Sunday, the struggling Basque side's first away win of the Spanish league season. Bilbao finally showed flashes of the attacking verve that led it to the finals of the Europa League and Copa del Rey last season and made it one of the surprises of European football with memorable wins over Manchester United. Aduriz...
08:42 AM, Nov 05, 2012
Valencia: David Ferrer of Spain won the Valencia Open for the third time by beating Alexandr Dolgopolov 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 on Sunday. Ferrer also won on the hard courts at the City of Arts and Sciences in 2008 and 2010. He lost the final in 2005 when the tournament was played on clay. It was the fifth-ranked Ferrer's sixth title of the season and 17th in his career. "I am...
11:42 PM, Oct 28, 2012
Valencia: Top-seeded David Ferrer reached the Valencia Open final for a third time, beating Ivan Dodig of Croatia 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-1 on Saturday. Ferrer, the local favourite, awaits the other semi-final winner between Jurgen Melzer and Alexandr Dolgopolov. After the fifth-ranked Ferrer controlled the opening set, Dodig saved two break points to force a second-set tiebreaker, where he converted a third set point by forcing the Spaniard into netting...
11:24 PM, Oct 27, 2012
Valencia: David Ferrer beat his Spanish Davis Cup team-mate Nicolas Almagro 6-3, 7-5 on Friday to reach the semifinals of the Valencia Open. The fifth-ranked Ferrer was little troubled on the hard indoor surface as he improved to 12-0 against an opponent who will become his team-mate next month in the Czech Republic when Spain looks to defend its Davis Cup title. Ferrer has won the Valencia title twice and...
12:04 AM, Oct 27, 2012
Valencia: David Ferrer cruised to an easy 6-4, 6-2 victory over fellow Spaniard Albert Ramos to reach the quarter-finals of the Valencia Open on Thursday. Ferrer, seeded No. 1 at the indoor tournament, used an effective serve plus four breaks of his 47th-ranked opponent in a much easier match after a labored first-round victory. The fifth-ranked Spaniard next faces Nicolas Almagro, who defeated American Sam Querrey 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-0....
02:33 PM, Oct 26, 2012
Valencia: Milos Raonic and John Isner were knocked out of the Valencia Open by lower-ranked opponents on Wednesday, denting their chances of clinching one of two remaining berths at next month's World Tour finals in London. Eighth-seeded Canadian Raonic lost his first-round match against Luxembourg's Gilles Muller 7-5, 7-6, while American Isner, the fifth seed, was beaten 7-6, 4-6, 6-4 in the second round by Belgian 21-year-old David Goffin, who...
08:54 AM, Oct 25, 2012
