Everton and Valencia both played some tough matches in the International Champions Cup leading into the season and now that the places are mostly set, the two will fight it out for fifth place after Juventus and Inter Milan deke out the seventh place and this all comes before the championship match between Real Madrid and Chelsea.
Roberto Martinez is looking to get his club a nice victory after a tough match earlier in the tournament and now they are looking to finish in fifth place. The Toffees played hard the entire way and ended up beating Italian champions Juventus 6-5 on penalty kicks to take the 2-1 victory after things were split at 1-1. The match went into penalties and saw Tim Howard make some fantastic saves to keep his club alive and Kevin Mirallas added a very nice goal earlier in the match.
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The opening win for Everton put them on a nice track and now they will try to do it again against Valencia. Howard made a save on Federico Peluso to clinch the victory and Everton then played Real Madrid and lost to set up this match. Madrid won 2-1 in that match and now Valencia comes in after splitting its games, winning 4-0 against Inter Milan on Sunday which came after a home loss against AC Milan 2-1 and now they will try and rebound as well after some disappointing stretches for both sides.
Jonathan Viera is hot after scoring twice against Inter Milan and Ever Banega and Jonas Goncalves also scored for the club. Valencia won 19 times and amassed 65 points in La Liga last season and Everton had a similar finish with 16 wins and 63 points to finish in sixth place. Martinez has already managed against one of his home Spanish teams in Real Madrid and now Valencia will be the second one. Everton is looking for a new addition as all this goes on, as Ajax defender Toby Alderweireld may join up and Valencia has reportedly lost Roberto Soldado to Tottenham for 30 million.
Ronaldo scored quickly in the match against Everton and the club could never recover and in just the second soccer game at Dodgers Stadium, Real won 2-1 to advance. The final will be on Wednesday in Miami and Real will play Chelsea and while Nikica Jelavic scored for Everton, it wasn't enough. Howard was solid yet again and made some fantastic saves to keep things close, but his team could not bail him out and the club ended up losing and now they are facing Valencia here.
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Starters for Valencia will include Alves; Mathieu, Ruiz, Rami, Cissokho; Romeu, Parejo; Piatti, Banega, Guardado; Jonas, while Everton will have Howard; Stones, Distin, Jagielka, Baines; Mirallas, Gibson, Osman, Pienaar, Fellaini; Anichebe.