2023-12-14 07:30:22
«You can now scratch the Barça from the list». Is not Geli Dolphin entering the offices of Montilivi ni Michel in his office in La Vinya last monday morningbut they might well be. The victory in Montjuïc on Sunday (2-4) will reverberate for a long time both for being the first and for how it happened. Míchel and his men won the tactical and emotional game a Xavi Hernandez, Lewandowski and company to emerge victorious from Lluís Companys. It was the first time that Girona beat Barça and this, logically, meant writing another page in the history of the Girona team. A book that in recent years has seen the team add chapters and chapters.
It is Míchel’s great desire, he has always said so. “Making history” is one of the slogans he repeats the most. He’s been doing it since he arrived. First with promotion, last year with salvation and now having guaranteed, come what may, a third consecutive season in the First Division for the first time. Sunday in Montjuïc, as I said Pere PonsBarça loaded up and added the Blaugrana set to the historical list of teams that have been defeated by Girona. With Barça plastered, in this list there is only one team left: theAtlético de Madrid. To the rest of this season’s rivals already it has passed them by, at least, once it is in the First or Second Division. And that Atlético is a club that evokes good memories in the white-and-red parish. In fact, the first game in Primera (2017-18) was against the Matalasser team, who were able to equalize 2-0 with a man less following the expulsion of Griezmann (2-2). In addition, the Girona side eliminated them from the Cup in the 2018-19 season thanks to the double value of away goals (1-1 at Montilivi and 3-3 at Metropolitano). However, Girona has never managed to beat them. Thus, the balance, between League and Cup with the Matlasers is five draws and three defeats. Last season, Míchel’s team beat Metropolitano (2-1) while Montilivi was condemned by a goal in the addition of the central defender Gimenez at the exit of a corner (0-1).
In this sense, there is a small asterisk with the Royal Society and the Betistwo teams that Girona have never beaten in the First Division, but they have defeated them in the Second Division. With the Basques, in the top division there are five draws and two defeats, while with the Andalusians, the balance is one draw and five defeats. However, both in the first and second division, the team from Girona did beat them in Segona. curiously, it was the same season, 2009-10, when Real came out with their tail between Montilivi’s legs (1-0, goal from Calle), and Betis were surprised by Benito Villamarín, -then called Ruiz de Lopera- thanks to a free-kick goal from White hair (0-1). It is also worth saying that Girona had already beaten Real Sociedad in previous stages in the silver category, in black and white: 2-0 in the 1935-36 season and 4-1 in 1948-49 and 1-0 in Betis in 1940-41, always in Vistalegre. In this way, after receiving the Alabès in Montilivi on Monday, dtoday in eight at Villamarín (19:00) Girona will have the opportunity to beat Betis for the first time in Primera.
Castilla and Jaén in Segona
With Barça being the last to fall to the sack of the teams that have never conceded to the white-and-reds in professional football, there are also a couple of other teams. It is about the Real Madrid Castile and Jaén. And the fact is that Girona was never able to overcome the Madrid subsidiary in the four times they faced them from 2012 to 2014 with three draws and one defeat between Montilivi and Valdebebas. He didn’t get away with Jaén either, with whom he matched in the 2013-14 season in the silver category: 3-1 to New Victoria and 1-1 to Montilivi. With the Andalusians, in addition, there were no ways in Second Division B in the 1979-80 season (4-0 and 1-2). In this sense, the list of rivals whom Girona has never beaten playing in Segona B is a little, not much, longer: Gandia, Azkoyen, SE Ibiza, Algeciras, Arnedo and Poblenc complete it The Girona team also has theAthletic Zamorawhom he could not beat in a promotion phase to the Second Division (1951-52), on this list.
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