2023-12-18 23:54:18
GIRONA What has the most merit about Girona’s leadership, because Míchel’s team is once again the sole leader of the First Division thanks to their victory against Alabès (3-0), is the fact that they managed to turn everyday that which is extraordinary. Extraordinary means what is out of the ordinary, the common. As everyday, what is daily. That the white-and-red team marveled in this way at the top of the table, surrounded by giants, was not normal. Era, in the past Now it is.
After seventeen days of the championship, the Girona side take two points from Madrid, nine from Barça and ten from Atlético de Madrid, who have a game to play. Not even on the PlayStation are there these differences, even if the level is adapted to the minimum required difficulty. With Christmas just around the corner, Girona have won fourteen of their seventeen games, lost only one and conceded a couple of draws. Seniors in Montilivi must rub their eyes constantly.
It is necessary to repeat it and be very heavy: Girona is the leader of the First Division. And it plays football like it is, the best team in the competition. After last weekend’s display in the derby against Barça at the Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium (2-4), the match against Alabès was not taken as a joke. These are the nights that cause Míchel’s to be on top of everything. That’s why he didn’t fall into the trap of believing himself favorite on a Monday night against one of the teams that, in August, when all the rivals had the same points, was from his league.
11,812 people in the stands didn’t want to miss it either. Even if the match was on a Monday at the last minute, on TV and it was unreasonably cold, a work of art like this had to be experienced live. Because it is worth checking Savinho’s imbalance, Dovbyk’s solvency, Iván Martín’s changes in direction or Eric Garcia’s corrections. It is worth seeing the leader of Primera, Girona, become a great.
Unlimited confidence
Because barely a couple of minutes after the referee blew the whistle, he had already overturned his offensive proposal in such a way that it looked like the eightieth minute. What confidence, the white-and-red, that does not suffer from possible disconnections because everyone feels that this year is making it big and that if they continue like this, the party can be immense. These footballers play well and also hang, two virtues that, together with the human factor, make the group unstoppable. In the twenty-third minute they had already scored the first, and at the break they had already decided the match. As we said, Girona is already one of the elite.
And all this without two props: Tsygankov and Stuani, who were added to the already known absence of Yangel Herrera. Míchel bet for Portu, the fifteenth man to become Girona’s starter. In Montilivi, everyone knows that Murcia, every commitment, does not disappoint. Portu was the author of the 2-0, after taking advantage of an assist from Yan Couto, constant protagonist, as well as Miguel Gutiérrez, the other great discovery of the course, for his danger on the right side.
But now, let’s talk about Artem Dovbyk. The Ukrainian, the most expensive signing in the club’s history, an unknown when he landed this summer even though now gossip is saying that Manchester’s petrodollars are inflating the red-and-white economy, climbed to ten goals after his second double in Primera. The first served to clear the scoreboard, when Alabès was praying for a ball to reach Samu Omorodion, who has a very good future. Dovbyk took advantage of a Sivera refusal to Couto’s shot to score at pleasure.
The third, already in the second half and from a penalty taken on the ubiquitous Brazilian, signed the definitive blow for a Girona that even had time to rest some men, thinking about Thursday’s game at Benito Villamarín. A match that will serve to close a fantasy 2023 in which, counting the last six months of the 2022-23 season and the initial stretch of this 2023-24, Girona would only be surpassed by Barça, Atlético de Madrid and the Madrid All together, under a fabulous game and hugs to the record of Juanpe, who tied with Granell and Borja as the footballer with the most games in the history of Girona in professional categories (233).
Montilivi lives something unique in the time he wants to stretch as much as possible. And you know what’s the best? That Míchel’s Girona, a whole team of authors, does not want the leadership of Primera to ever end. what a joy
Girona: Gazzaniga, Eric Garcia, David López (Arnau, 79′), Blind, Miguel, Aleix Garcia, Yan Couto (Juanpe, 79′), Iván Martín (Jhon Solís, 74′), Portu (Valery, 64′), Savinho (Pablo Torre, 64′) and Dovbyk. Coach: Míchel Sánchez. Alabès: Sivera, Tenaglia, Rafa Marín, Duarte, Javi López, Guevara, Blanco (Benavidez, 78′), Gorosabel (Sola, 74′), Guridi (Rebbach, 61′), Rioja (Hagi, 61′) and Samu ( Kike, 74′). Coach: Pedro Rostoll. Goals: 1-0 Dovbyk (23′), 2-0 Porto (42′) and 3-0 Dovbyk, penalty (59′). Referee: Hernández Maeso (Comitè Extremeny). Yellow cards: Tenaglia (39′) Red cards: None. Stadium: Montilivi, 11,812 spectators.
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