Giorgi Mamardashvili spent a lot of the season with Valencia in LaLiga’s drop zone, however is now serving to mount a exceptional late bid for a European spot.
Valencia had spent all however one week within the backside three of Spain’s high flight between the beginning of the season and the primary week of March.
However with Ruben Baraja sacked in December and Carlos Corberan appointed as his substitute, they may now end as excessive as seventh with three video games to play.
That comes with Valencia presently on a run of 10 video games unbeaten and having solely misplaced two of their final 17 since a 2-1 defeat to Actual Madrid on January 3.
Mamardashvili missed that loss to Actual together with the earlier three fixtures on account of damage, however the Liverpool-bound goalkeeper has been key to his facet’s resurgent kind since taking on once more between the sticks.
Saturday noticed Valencia beat fellow mid-table facet Getafe 3-0 to maneuver into tenth and inside two factors of eighth – a place which might safe a spot within the Europa Convention League playoffs.
???WHAT A BRILLINT SAVE from Mamardashvili earlier right now!?pic.twitter.com/beezcv54yJ
— Georgian Footy (@GeorgianFooty) Could 10, 2025
The Georgian pulled off a shocking save to disclaim a header from Peter Gonzalez simply earlier than half-time, scampering to his far submit and tipping the ball out of hazard.
He additionally produced a formidable cease to maintain out a goal-bound free-kick from Omar Alderete shortly after Valencia went 1-0 up, ending the sport along with his eighth clear sheet of the season.
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— Valencia CF (@valenciacf_en) Could 10, 2025
Three of these clear sheets have come on this present run of 10 video games with out defeat, with Mamardashvili solely conceding 10 targets in that point having shipped 35 in his earlier 21 appearances.
It’s an encouraging run of kind for the participant and each his present and future golf equipment, and will function the proper sign-off earlier than he heads to Merseyside.
If Valencia had been to complete seventh they’d enter the Europa League‘s group stage, and given their fortunes earlier than Corboran was appointed that may be a exceptional feat.
Bajcetic battling relegation
Issues are a lot totally different for Stefan Bajcetic elsewhere in LaLiga, with the midfielder a part of a Las Palmas facet presently nineteenth within the desk.
Bajcetic made his eleventh begin for the membership as they hosted Rayo Vallecano on Friday evening, nevertheless it led to a 3rd consecutive defeat as Las Palmas suffered a 1-0 loss.
Las Palmas can nonetheless end as excessive as thirteenth however are among the many favourites to affix Actual Valladolid in dropping right down to the Segunda Division.
Whereas the vast majority of Liverpool’s loanees have already completed their duties for the marketing campaign, left-back James Norris continued a formidable particular person season as Shelbourne beat St Patrick’s Athletic 2-1 on Friday.
Calvin Ramsay was the one different participant concerned in a sport over the weekend however the right-back went unused in Kilmarnock’s 3-2 win over Dundee – having nonetheless solely began as soon as for the Scottish membership.
