Neville: Valencia had lead in legs

Gary Neville felt Valencia looked like they had already
played another game on Wednesday after they were
defeated 2-0 by Lyon at Mestalla:- Photo Filed.

Gary Neville has voiced his frustration with Valencia's 2-0
defeat against Lyon on Wednesday as they crashed out of the
Champions League in the former Manchester United defender's
first game in charge.

The La Liga side came close to opening the scoring early on via
Shkodran Mustafi, but the Germany international hit the post
and had a goal disallowed before they eventually fell behind
when Maxwel Cornet curled a strike in the top corner, with
Alexandre Lacazette putting the match to bed after the interval.

"I think we had lead in our legs, as if we had played another
game today," Neville said at a news conference.

"We were the better side in the first half, but in the second we
conceded a lot of counter-attacks and conceded the second
goal. Lyon have good attacking players but we should have
done much better.

"They were better than us and there’s no excuse. We can’t be
happy with how we played and we can’t blame anyone.

"We have a fight in front of us, an objective. We have some
games left before the Christmas break and I hope we can get
some injured players back. Today we simply weren’t good
enough."

Valencia finished third in Group H following Wednesday's
results with six points from as many games, thus qualifying for
the Europa League.