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Plenty of reasons to believe in this Girona

The mixture of emotion and joy caused more than a few Girona fans displaced to the Santiago Bernabéu on Sunday to shed a tear. The game, the image and, above all, the result of Girona against an entire Real Madrid (1-1) made the more than three hundred white-and-red supporters who were in Madrid feel proud. In Girona, the team’s draw was the number one reason for conversation between walkers and walkers around the Fair in a fantastic weekend that Uni had started and that rounded off Basketball Girona with the victory against UCAM Murcia The situation of Míchel’s team in the classification remains delicate, because the milestone has given an income of only one point. What a point. The streak is now 3 from the last 21 in the game, but the draw has allowed the team to leave the relegation positions. “I’m not afraid to be down, but I’m busy and I’m sorry that we’re down there with this squad,” said Míchel to his players in the talk before the game at the Bernabéu. “If we do everything very well, we can win here. Girona has already done it once. Let’s go back and be remembered!” continued a speech that spurred his men and opened the way to the glorious point.

All very well maybe not, but almost. In fact, even more than one had the chance of Herrera’s shot on the crossbar or Valery Fernández’s two clear chances that had they gone in who knows if Girona could have come out even better. One of the protagonists of the match was precisely the L’Escala midfielder who acknowledged that the tie had a “taste of victory” but that it also left him feeling “a little angry” because he “could have won”. Some words that emanate the dressing room’s ambition to overturn the bad line of results that the team had entered.

The Altempordanese was one of the players who left the dressing room with the most changes. Holder, with good minutes and captain for the first time of the team, Valery, moreover, can say that he has never lost at the Bernabéu. He played in the 2019 win and started in the draw on Sunday. It was not won but for Valery, more mature than the first time, it was perhaps more special and all because he made his debut as team captain at only 22 years old (he will be 23 at the end of November). “It’s not easy. Seeing this stadium and these players who won the Champions League can be subconsciously impressive,” he recalled. Valery could have been even more of a star if he had hit a header from Arnau’s cross first and one-on-one in front of Thibaut Courtois, who was not offside. Although it was only a point, the striker believes there is enough to make the fans proud of the team. “We have to be happy because we scored a point and it could have been more. Our people must be happy and enjoy themselves with us, because there is a team to compete against the big teams in the category”, he said. On Friday, against Athletic in Montilivi, the team will have to make Sunday’s point even better.

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