Girona-Osasuna de Liga: Chronicle, goals and result

“Have you seen who’s playing?” was heard outside the stadium when the line-up was announced. Girona, who changed more than half the team compared to the defeat in Almeria, prayed, searched and wished to find safety. Starting with the goalkeeper and going through the offensive line, Míchel, at least, did not stand idly by. It couldn’t be, of course not, after finishing the last games with horrible feelings. But another day did not start well.

The white-and-red eleven came out with the determination, constant, to go straight to the barracks. If it could be done with one touch, better than with two. More direct, more vertical, the right wing accumulated presence, with arrivals to the bottom line never finished by Taty Castellanos, all alone at the tip fighting with the centrals. The first twenty minutes foretold that Girona wanted to change, but Osasuna soon made it clear that it would cost them.

The opponents don’t need much to do damage either, with a few timid attacks they do enough to strike fear into everyone’s body. The people from Navarre, patient in the creation, stormed the small area of ​​Girona with an unexpected entrance of Nacho Vidal, who wanted to surprise, ended up surprised to see how his shot went wide, when it was already a goal. The first murmurs were already in the stands that have become results oriented and are already letting go of some reproach. How short-lived was the joy of the Girona fans, who a little over two months ago were sitting in their seats laughing, with the start of a League that once again had the presence of their club Now he gets angry and complains, looking for culprits and demanding victories that, when achieved, are not properly celebrated either, because they are taken for granted. There is often a lack of perspective and valuing things in their proper measure.

The fact is that after Nacho Vidal’s chance, Osasuna took the lead with a goal from Kike Barja, who had previously won the position for Yan Couto. Gazzaniga, as Juan Carlos had done in the previous ten days, did not keep a clean sheet either. Montilivi, who was not satisfied with what he saw because the effervescence of the beginning had been extinguished, had a truce with the bad mood at the end of the break. A foul served by Aleix Garcia was left by Yangel at the entrance of David López, who swept everything to equalize. We will talk about the idyll of this shield with the added times another day.

And next Sunday against Madrid

Comparing the performances of one and the other, the tie could already be taken for granted. But Girona, who know that next week they play at the Santiago Bernabéu and it won’t always be a party – they won there in 2019 – went to work in case they could leave the relegation zone by making a real jump in the classification. Míchel moved the bench and removed Vallejo and Villa – dynamic as disruptive, intermittent as starters – to give entrance to Valery, Miguel, Reinier and Riquelme. Talent and energy, which called for legs.

Girona had a better face, although Osasuna was not wiped out. It is not at the top of the League by chance, just as Girona is at the bottom because it is. The Catalan team lacks form, experience and, why not say it, more presence from Cristhian Stuani, who came on in the 80th minute in case they were hunting for one. He couldn’t, because there was no longer any danger.