Eibar 1 - 0 Valencia: Pedro Leon and Eibar pile more misery on Valencia - 7M sport

Eibar 1 - 0 Valencia: Pedro Leon and Eibar pile more misery on Valencia



Posted Sunday, August 28, 2016 by PA

Pedro Leon scored the rebound off his own missed penalty to earn Eibar a 1-0 win and hand Valencia their second straight defeat at the start of the LaLiga season.

The penalty award angered Los Che as Aymen Abdennour was penalised for handball when Kike's attempted cross hit his arm from close range, with the referee appearing to wave play on before seeing the signal of one of his assistants.

After Valencia's players had protested in vain, Leon saw his penalty brilliantly saved by Ryan, but was quickest to react to the rebound and slotted the ball into the empty net.

The visitors had plenty of opportunities to bounce back from a shock 4-2 home defeat to Las Palmas on the opening day of the campaign, but were undone by a controversial second-half penalty at the Estadio Municipal de Ipurua.

Santi Mina was the biggest culprit for Valencia, side-footing wide of a gaping net in the 40th minute after he was picked out in acres of space by Jose Gaya.

But in truth the visitors should have been in front before then as they dominated possession, with Abdennour left unmarked just six yards out from Nani's cross, only to head the ball into the ground and see it loop just over the bar.

Whatever Eibar manager Jose Luis Mendilibar said at the interval had the desired effect as the home side came out to dominate the early stages of the second period.

Leon forced a decent save from Valencia goalkeeper Matthew Ryan from a free kick after 51 minutes, before Bebe tested the Australian with a somewhat tamer effort.

Ryan was then able to watch Kike's effort as it drifted beyond his far post before the match was settled by a debatable penalty award on the hour.

Valencia pushed forward in search of an equaliser but confirmation that it was not going to be Abdennour's night came when he headed just wide from Daniel Parejo's corner.



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