Carlos Corberán Tactics At Valencia CF 2025/2026: Why Possession Isn’t Creating Goals – Tactical Analysis

There are a bunch of teams in La Liga that struggle with scoring goals this season.

Eight teams are currently sitting at below one goal per game, and especially in the relegation battle, pretty much all of the teams heavily struggle with creating opportunities for themselves.

One of those teams is Valencia CF, with their manager Carlos Corberán.

It all seemed like a miracle just a year ago, when the young Spanish manager took over his boyhood club, turning around a dire situation quickly and guiding the club out of the relegation battle into the top half of the table.

Now, the team has only scored 16 goals in 17 games and ranks in the bottom-third in pretty much every single attacking statistic, which caused them to only win one out of their last 12 league games.

Valencia is back in the relegation battle because of their struggles in attack, currently sitting in 17th place with just one point to spare compared to FC Girona in the relegation zone.

So, in this Valencia tactical analysis, we will look at how Valencia play with the ball under Carlos Corberán this season, why this style of play causes problems for the team, and which areas they need to improve to get out of the relegation fight in 2026.

Valencia Triangles On The Wing

Looking at the way Valencia play in possession, especially in the attacking stage of play, they often try to get their final breakthroughs on the wings and then cross the ball into the penalty area.

Corberán has a very interesting way of finding the space behind the opposing team’s backline, mainly through rotations in the triangle and through passes.

Los Che are often trying to get wide very early on when they progress their attacks through the middle third, and they rank in the top third in the league in total crosses so far this season.

Most of the time, Corberán pushes his wingers in his 4-2-3-1 formation into the half-spaces while the full-backs are the ones actually providing the width, but positional rotations are a key part of Valencia’s attacking play.

Here we can see the very typical triangle for Corberán’s team on the right side in their game against RCD Mallorca.

In this case, the right winger, right-back, and right central midfielder formed a triangle and established possession on the wing.