The second Girona-Madrid in eight days also had no color other than white. If the dominance of football was clear in Montilivi (0-3), in basketball there was still a more incontestable superiority of the rival, and that, like Saturday last week, the leadership was at stake. Fontajau dressed in the atmosphere of the great occasions (5,249 spectators), VIPs such as Aleix Garcia, Cristhian Stuani or Svetislav Pesic did not want to miss the occasion, and Friends of the Arts, at the break (28-45) , they tried to cheer up a fan who was already beginning to see everything as lost with the release of the club’s anthem. There were plenty of incentives, but the main one, on the track, was missed. There was hardly any party.
Madrid, which had just won against Vitoria in the Euroleague and on Tuesday has a historic, friendly date against Doncic’s Dallas Mavericks at the WiZink Center, did not show any wear, nor did they reserve themselves for the focus of playing against a rival N.B.A. With 16 triples and a recital of offensive resources (five players with or above 10 points, Hezonja, Poirier, Llull, Yabusele and Musa), Girona could barely resist the first quarter (17-23), and that that right from the start the Salva Camps had been hyperactive and highly motivated.
With the game looking very bad, the presentation of the anthem warmed up a stand that had been a little damp. Joan Enric Barceló, Ferran Piqué and Dani Alegret jumped on the court wearing the club shirt that the players gave them last Wednesday, when they went to present the song. It’s called 3 times Immortals, and it didn’t take long for the fans to make it theirs right away: “We are, one team, one voice, we are this force, we are three times immortal”, says one of the main verses. As the members of the group explained to Diari de Girona last Thursday, the anthem is epic and catchy, even on days like yesterday when the rival passes you over.
The second half was tough. In the third quarter the whites scored 33 points, by land, sea and air, wow. The public could only revive with a 22-15 run in the last that made up the score a little, and gave everything every time the ball passed through the hands of the young Pau Sala. The leadership escaped, as in football, but only Madrid, for the moment, can with Girona.
2023-10-08 20:26:16
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