He Girona can extract many things from the incontestable victory against Almeria (6-2). And not just because it was, as Míchel rightly said, the “best game of the season in terms of goal” which places them as the third highest scoring team in the Primera Division behind Barça and Madrid. Last Friday the team left the balance of goals in favor and against zero (33-33), numbers he hasn’t had since last September 2022 when he lost at Betis (2-1). From then on, he had always kept the overall score in the negative with a maximum difference of four targets in four days.
“The goal is to be positive and, in fact, we could consider zero as positive. It would have been even better if we hadn’t conceded, at least the second goal which is a mistake and I didn’t like it at all”, said the coach. Almeria’s first goal, the work of Ramazani (min.66), was preceded by a misunderstanding between Toni Villa and Arnau when defending Robertone, who is the one who places the cross at the front of the area small for the Belgian winger. “I tell the players that the breaks are of no use because if the cross passes you can neither defend the shot nor defend the one-on-one. Aid must be very direct”, he explained. While the second occurred after a long pass also by Robertone from midfield towards El Bilal (min.81) who took the Girona players by surprise. “We have to improve it because that way we would be positive. we need it We won’t score six goals in every game, not much less, but it won’t be easy to score two to win either. Against Valencia we gave ourselves the chance to win with a goal (1-0). We must repeat these performances more”, Míchel insisted.
In this sense, specific mistakes continue to penalize the team despite controlling much more the different situations of the match and having increased the effectiveness in the opposite goal. Girona’s improvement in defense is a fact and it should serve them well steps towards permanence. This Sunday in San Mamés, the white-and-red team will have to try to achieve the following challenge: to have more goals in favor than against. This has not happened since the beginning of the year when, on the fifth day, Valladolid prevailed (2-1) with 6 goals in favor and 5 against. A lot of time has passed since then.