Girona left its mark on Sunday san mames with a recital that has entered directly into the club’s history museum. The victory at Cathedral (2-3) it left the local Basque fans speechless who surrendered to the superiority of a newly promoted team like Girona. For the half a thousand people from Girona who were in Bilbao and, for the thousands who followed the game remotely from Cataloniathe party of Michel it was a great gift. The most optimistic trusted it, of course, as did the coach who was convinced that his men could continue the exhibition made the previous day against l’Almeria. So said, so done. Girona swept theAthletic Club in a first part of the film in which they managed to score three goals. Aleix Garcia’s and the two own goals from De Marcos and Vesga add to the six scored by the team against Almeria and confirm that Girona are in a sweet moment in attack. So much so, that since a couple of days ago, the Girona team are the third highest scoring team in the entire First Division, now with 36 goals. Only the Barça (45) and Madrid (47) they have scored more goals than Girona so far. The number places the white-and-red team, therefore, on the podium of the Santander League and equates it to other big clubs in the main European leagues. In this sense, Míchel’s, for example, have scored more goals than big continental clubs like the Roma (30) o el Newcastle (35)fourth and fifth in Serie A and the Premier League, respectively, or the same as the Juventus (36). Of the first three classified d‘Spain, England, Italy, Germany and FranceGirona surpasses the third of the Bundesliga, l’Union Berlinwho has made 35, with one less game played, yes.
Míchel said that he wanted to lead the team to be the best Girona in history. At the moment it is on the right track. With the permanence still up for grabs, the team overcomes the d‘Eusebio Sacristán (18-19), who had 24 points and had scored 23 goals – he was 17th – in the same days. In addition, he follows in the footsteps of Pablo Machin (17-18) who had added one more (31), but surpasses him in goals (36 now for 31 then). It is these 36 goals in favor that make Girona a rarity both in the Santander League and in Europe. In fact, if we take into account the 98 teams in the four major leagues, Míchel’s are the 32nd top scorers.
If we compare Girona’s records with the Italian Serie A, it can be seen that only five teams out of twenty in the league have scored more goals than Girona. they are Napoli (58), Inter (44), Milan (41), Lazio (39) and Atalanta (42). The rest, fifteen clubs with Juventus, Rome, Bologna or Udinese, among others, they do not surpass Girona’s numbers in terms of goal. In the Premier League, there are currently nine teams that have scored more than Girona’s 36 goals. Despite this, Míchel’s have scored more goals than, for example, the fifth Newcastle (35), el Chelsea (23) o l’Aston Villa (30). As for the Bundesliga, Girona surpasses l‘Union Berlin, ranked third, and has scored 35 goals so far. Freiburg fifth, with 35, or ninth Werder Bremenn (34), are some of the ten teams in the category that have scored fewer goals than Girona. To finish, taking a look at the French league, it is discovered that there are also a dozen teams with more goalscoring capacity than Girona, among which, the Nice (33) or Nantes (25).
Closer, in the League, only Barça and Madrid surpass Girona. The rest of the teams in the category are left with fewer goals and the ones at the top draw attention:Real Sociedad (32), Atlético (32), Betis (32), Vallecano Ray (29), health 22) o Athletic Club (33), for example.
Fifteen different players have seen the net this season
Aleix Garcia saw the net again last Sunday in Bilbao after more than a year without doing so. His last goal was in last season’s Copa del Rey at Puertollano (1-5). With the debut of Ulldecona in the League, there are already fifteen Girona footballers who have scored at least one goal this campaign. A very wide range that delights a Míchel who has always asked for the goal-scoring contribution of the rest of the squad and not just the strikers. Interestingly, the list has increased incredibly in the last two days because, apart from Aleix Garcia’s goal in Bilbao, against Almeria the six goals were by six different players and, in addition, it also meant the premiere by Viktor Tsygankov and Javi Hernández. So far, Girona’s 36 goals are distributed as follows: Stuani (6), Castellanos (5), Riquelme (4), Iván Martín (3), Samu Saiz, Yangel Herrera, David López and Arnau Martínez ( 2) and Tsygankov, Toni Villa, Javi Hernández, Reinier, Borja García, Aleix Garcia and Oriol Romeu, one.
All this makes Girona the team with the most different scorers in the category, tied with Valencia and Almeria. In this regard, it should be remembered that two of Girona’s goals were scored by rival players (Mikel Vesga and Óscar De Marcos) on Sunday in San Mamés.
Of Girona’s offensive players, only Valery Fernández and the young Joel Roca remain to make their debuts this exercise. Men like Santi Bueno, Juanpe or Bernardo also usually see goal during the season with some strategy goal from a set piece. None of the three central teams have managed to do so yet this year. Also Yan Couto, now injured, has offensive projection to reach the area and score. It remains to be seen if the list of scorers expands.