Valencia vs. Espanyol live: at what time and on which channel to watch it on LaLiga

Valencia will face the Spanish for the day 19 of La Liga Santander this Friday, December 31 from 10:15 am (Peruvian time). You can follow LIVE | LIVE | FREE the duel between Spanish clubs through the DirecTV Sports TV signal.

Valencia and Espanyol will close at Mestalla in 2021 on the last day of the year with a meeting that both teams face with the aim of reinforcing their European aspirations, but marked by the uncertainty derived from the covid-19, especially when it comes to knowing with which players they will be able to count each technician.

Valencia vs. Espanyol: schedules

• Perú: 10:15 a. m.
• Ecuador: 10:15 a. m.
• Colombia: 10:15 a. m.
• México: :15 a. m.
• Argentina: 12:15 p. m.
• Uruguay: 12:15 p. m.
• Chile: 12:15 p. m.
• España: 05:15 p.m.

Valencia vs. Espanyol: TV and Online channels

• Peru: DirecTV Sports / DirecTV GO
• Ecuador: DirecTV Sports / DirecTV GO
• Colombia: DirecTV Sports / DirecTV GO
• Argentina: DirecTV Sports / DirecTV GO
• Uruguay: DirecTV Sports / DirecTV GO
• Chile: DirecTV Sports / DirecTV GO

In these circumstances, the formation of both teams will be an unknown until the moment of the start of the match with which both close the first round of the competition. On the one hand, there is Valencia that has entered the fight for Europe, after having obtained three victories in a row, but given the tightness of the noble zone, it will sleep in the Champions League zone if it adds a fourth victory.

Valencia is eighth with the same 28 points as Barcelona. José Bordalás’s team, which has seven league games without losing and nine if you count the Copa del Rey, went on Christmas holidays after a meritorious comeback in the derby against Levante.

For its part, Espanyol visits Valencia at the Mestalla after announcing that five first team players and two members of the coaching staff have tested positive for coronavirus, although without excuses for these absences.

The blue and white team will work to close 2021 with a level victory. In fact, a victory against the current eighth classified would bring the Catalans closer to the noble zone of the table. In addition, it would be the team’s first away victory.

Espanyol is LaLiga’s second worst visitor with only three points added away from RCDE Stadium. Levante, bottom of the competition, is the only block that presents worse figures, two points. The parakeet dressing room is aware that to make a leap in quality it needs victories away.

In spite of everything, tomorrow’s clash does not seem, on paper, the best scenario to change this dynamic: Espanyol presents disastrous numbers in Mestalla and to find its last victory it is necessary to go back to matchday seven of the 2007-08 season, which ended with a score of 1-2.

Valencia vs. Espanyol: probable alignments

Valencia: Cillessen; Piccini or Correia, Hugo Guillamón, Alderete, Jesús Vázquez; Hélder Costa, Wass, Carlos Soler, Hugo Duro Duro; Guedes and Maxi Gómez.

Spanish: Diego López; Vidal, Sergi Gómez, Cabrera, Pedrosa; Bare, Herrera; Embarba, Darder, Puado and Raúl de Tomás.

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