After the defeat in Cadiz, Girona will try to make amends tomorrow evening against Almeria in Montilivi. Míchel recovers David López and Reinier for the match, but continues with a long list of casualties due to injury (Valery, Couto, Kébé and Yangel Herrera) to which Miguel Gutiérrez is added, due to suspension. The coach recalled today that if Girona “isn’t at its best, it won’t be able to compete against anyone”. In this sense, the technician has appealed to “humility” so that the same thing that happened in Cadiz does not happen.
CONCERN
“In Cádiz it was the worst match we have played this year. I am not now because the players know the opponent and know that it is a match where we have to do things very well. It is important that the team has spirit and humility in every game because we just got promoted and mainly I think that sometimes we don’t take into account that we always have to play with a lot of humility. That’s why when we play with soul, passion, energy and full concentration with our fans, we have competed always. Only Cadiz and Real Sociedad, who were very effective, have been superior. No other team has beaten us by more than one goal. It’s an important fact”
LEFT SIDE
Javi Hernández may play, Callens may also play or we can play with a three-man defense, with laners.
ALMERIA
They haven’t won away from home, but in the last away game in Vallecas they were much better in the first half. In the middle of the field they have found two interiors with a lot of performance as Melero and Robertone. We need to win to vindicate ourselves from the other day’s game.
DIRECT RIVAL
It was very important to win in Cadiz not to leave the opponent untouched but to move away from the relegation positions. – Now it’s the same. All the teams take steps forward and the classification becomes very complicated. It’s not how many points we need, but our goal of making history (getting to 53) is a long way off right now. We will certainly suffer but we need to be a team that is in a more comfortable zone.
READY TO SUFFER
I hope we are. My concern is not to lose humility in every match. It’s important to always keep that in mind, in every match. If we play a game with soul, we will surely have a great game. I have a lot of confidence in my squad. If we do things right we can win any game, but it seems to us that everything is already done and that worries me a lot. Losing two or three games might throw us off our feet. This league is complicated and we have to have our heads ready for anything.
EATING EMPTY
In Cadiz it was a bad game where we didn’t have chances and it is forgotten. In Vila-real we had good chances despite not playing a good game with the ball. Against Barça we also deserved a goal. With Valencia we kicked 23 times. The attacking team is fine. When we play well in attack, the team defends better. Almeria is difficult to recover when they get the ball back. If we attack well, we might not have so many problems in defence.
