Gary Neville's First Game A Satisfactory One

Gary Neville watched from the stands as his Valencia team snatched an unlikely point, Santi Mina scoring a late leveller to cancel out Luis Suárez’s goal as the visitors spurned a number of chances


     Gary Neville in the stands.

  Valencia celebrates the equaliser.
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‘We put in a complete performance at a very tough ground,’ says Asturian boss

    If Luis Enrique was unhappy at his side’s first failure to win in nine matches following the 1-1 draw inMestalla against Valencia, then he certainly hid it well in the post-game press on Saturday. “I have no complaints about the team, we put in a complete performance at a very tough ground,” said the boss. Generous in his appraisal of the exciting encounter, the coach found time to compliment his opponents: “They [Valencia] were very good in defence and they made the most of the great piece of play by Alcácer and the great finish from Mina.”

Key Opta stats:
• At the Mestalla, Valencia have gone eight league games without a win against Barcelona (D4 L4) and they kept just one clean sheet in that run.

• Barcelona have won six league games in a row. Should they defeat Valencia this will be their best winning streak since October 2013 (13).

• Neymar scores an average of one goal per 76 minutes, the best rate among players with more than 100 minutes played in La Lga this season.

• The Brazilian player has scored in his last four league appearances. Should he score against Valencia this will be his longest such run in the competition (5).

• Valencia is, behind Malaga (4), the side to have faced Neymar the most times without conceding a goal scored by him in La Liga (3).

• Messi, Suarez and Neymar have scored 30 out of the 33 Barcelona goals in La Liga so far this season.

He furthere made comments on;
Leo Messi

"I think he looked good, like the rest of the team. He is getting better and better physically, coming back to his best. He is key and indispensable. It's only normal in order to get back to 100%."

Valencia
"After seeing them I think they are one of the best team in the league, on an individual level and a team one. I was not surprised at howe good they were today."

POST GAME REACTIONS OF fCBarcelona Players:
Busquets:
Draw not a step backward

Andrés Iniesta:

“Until it’s over anything can happen when you don’t put the game away. I’ll go with how the team played at a place like Mestalla.”

“The draw is a shame but I get the feeling that the team keeps growing.”

“Valencia tried to make it uncomfortable for us but we were able to find space anyway. We just needed to score another goal.”

Ivan Rakitic:

“Our play was much better than theirs but we missed chances to put the game away.”

“The team was a ten because we played very well on a very difficult pitch. We deserved to win, but that’s football.”

“The most important thing is the way we played. We could have won but we have to keep playing like today because we were really good.”

Luis Suárez:

“The game leaves a bitter taste in your mouth because we had it, we had a lot of good chances, and we let two points get away.”

“The play where I stepped on their player was involuntary and I apologised.”

“We played a good game and we have to keep working to win games.”