Enjoying It While It Lasts

The “it” here is the fact that Valencia CF is in first place in the Spanish Liga and first place in group C of the Champions League. Not bad considering that we sold off our two best players—David Villa to Barça and David Silva to Manchester City.

I don’t normally write about football this much, I swear, but Valencia CF is kicking ass, taking names, and, as I said, sits at the top of the Spanish Liga after game #5 in the season. Valencia managed a heroic 1-1 draw with Atlético de Madrid at home on Wednesday evening and then thoroughly trounced Sporting de Gijón 0-2 on Saturday. In other big news Real Madrid crawled away from Valencia after a 0-0 draw with recently promoted Levante UD here on Saturday. Sevilla was beaten by another promoted club as they lost 2-0 against Alicante’s Hécules. Hécules also beat Barcelona 0-2 this year.

Valencia CF fans also have a great Champions League match this week here at Mestalla against Manchester United on Wednesday at 21:00. I am predicting that Valencia will lead their group. Not only that, I think we won’t be beat in our group C which also includes Glasgow Rangers and Bursaspor.