2023-12-09 07:00:22
“The system is asymmetrical, with a taller side, it depends if it is Arnau, Yan Couto or Miguel, but the initial positions have nothing to do with the real and game ones. We always try not to lose that ‘+ 1’ inside to have continuity in the game”, reveals Míchel, also indicating one of the points of improvement that he has detected in his team. “We have improved a lot in the structure of the PTP, in the pressure after a loss.”
To have numerical superiority in all areas of the field, Gazzaniga gives it to him from “the beginning”, from the goal. Miguel or Arnau when they join the center of the field, just like Blind or even Eric García. “But I never want to lose breadth.” And that is generated by both Sávio and Tsygankov, always maintaining the premise of never “taking away the essence of the player.”
In four months, the technician has barely rotated. He has used only 14 players in the starting eleven in 15 games: Gazzaniga, Arnau, Yan Couto, Eric García, David López, Blind, Miguel, Aleix García, Tsygankov, Iván Martín, Tsygankov, Dovbyk, Sávio and Stuani. In the Cup, everything is very different. In Orihuela, for example, everything rotated. It was a totally new eleven, leaving seven starters in Girona.
They are the backbone of a Girona, as Míchel defines it, “with hunger, with soul and with passion for the game.” The proof? They have come back from six games that they started losing: Mallorca (from 0-1 to 5-2), Villarreal (from 1-0 to 1-2), Almería (from 0-2 to 5-2), Osasuna (from 2-1 to 2-4), Rayo (from 1-0 to 1-2) and Valencia (from 0-1 to 2-1). He thus added 18 points. And they tied in San Sebastián on the first day, balancing Real’s initial goal (1-1).
In the Cup, more of the same. It went from 2-1 in Orihuela to 2-5 in the final. The seventh comeback.
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