À Punt will broadcast the Valencia and Hércules friendly this Thursday in Paterna at 19:30 hours, giving supporters in the Comunidad Valenciana a live window onto Valencia's final pre-season game. The match will be available on television and through the À Punt website, with Xavi Alberola narrating and Fernando Gómez Colomer providing commentary.
The timing matters because Valencia will reach this game with a different look from the one it planned for Wednesday against Teruel. Dimitrievski, Jesús Vázquez, César Tárrega, De Haas, Guido Rodríguez, Filip Ugrinic, Pepelu, Javi Guerra, Sato and Hugo Duro were left out of that match so they can be used on Thursday, when Carlos Corberán is set to lean on the club's strongest available XI.
That makes the broadcast more than a preseason convenience. The Antonio Puchades stands are reserved exclusively for Valencia supporters, which narrows the in-person crowd and leaves the live signal as the clearest option for anyone outside that section who wants to follow the game in real time. It is also the last tune-up before the league begins on the 22nd against Celta de Vigo in Mestalla, a date that arrived after Valencia's debut was pushed back from that weekend.
The postponement came after a request from Real Betis tied to the Argentine Giovani Lo Celso's participation in the World Cup final, a chain of events that reshaped Valencia's start to the season and turned this friendly into a late checkpoint. À Punt said it wanted to carry at least one pre-season match involving teams from Primera División and Segunda División in the Comunidad Valenciana, and this fixture now fills that slot with a local audience, a live commentator familiar to the club and a squad selection built around Thursday rather than Wednesday.
For Valencia, the match is less about experimentation than timing. The players held back from Teruel are being saved for Hércules, the television audience gets the only broad live access, and the countdown to the league opener now moves through Paterna before it reaches Mestalla.
