To be the first experience of both in the First Division bencheswith the common denominator of having been traditional options, legends of the house, for which their clubs opted in very complex situations, both Ruben Baraja as Luis Garcia have on their hands the most complex of challenges: escape relegation to Second Division. This Sunday they will meet again in mestalla with everything tied in their confrontations when they were Valencia and Espanyol players.
Three victories achieved each in their six clashes defending the shirts that this Sunday are measured with permanence as a dramatic objective. In one of those crashes, that of the April 16, 2006 in Mestalla, Baraja scored the final goal in the win for 4-0 against a parakeet team that arrived with the hangover of the Copa del Rey title won four days earlier. both scored In the next matchup, the 1-2 favorable to Espanyol October 6, 2007. A double made directly by Luis García in it 2-0this time in Montjuïc, from March 1, 2008; that afternoon he reached 50 goals in the First Division.
