Girona is the leader of LaLiga after the first 16 days of the competition and that is not the most surprising thing, despite the fact that no club has been able to break the hegemony of Real Madrid, FC Barcelona and Atlético since Sevilla did it Juande Ramos, Kanoute, Luis Fabiano and Dani Alves in the 2006-07 season.
Girona scores 2.37 goals per game in this first long third of the competition (he has 38), more than anyone else since 2019-20, scoring four in his visit this Sunday to FC Barcelona, a feat only explored by the Betis from 2018-19 in the last 19 years of competition. And that’s not the most surprising thing about what Míchel’s team is doing either.
Girona does not let up and presents its candidacy for the title
The truly shocking thing, what enhances this improbable ‘Gironí’ feat, is the number that appears in his points box. Add the Girona 41 points after 16 LaLiga games, after adding 13 victories, two draws (Athletic and Real Sociedad) and a single defeat (Real Madrid). On average, each game scores 2.56 points, an absolute outrage.
The third best leader in 10 years
In fact, and here is the truly surprising fact, Girona is the third best leader LaLiga in the last 10 seasons. Only Barcelona from 2017-18 and Real Madrid from 2014-15 have reached this page of the calendar with better background. And only with one more point, 42, of which the Catalan team now has, which adds up to seven points than the leader at this point in the 2018-19 season, Barça.
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The rule of three says that if you can keep up the pace, Girona would be LaLiga champion in May with 97 points (97,375, exactly). If he succeeded, something that logically borders on the utopian, Míchel’s team would be the fourth best champion in history of the Spanish First Division. Only Barça on two occasions (100 in 2012-13 and 99 in 2009-10) and Real Madrid on one occasion (100 in 2011-12) have surpassed those 97 points at the end of a season.
These data serve to verify that Girona is not an accidental leader, benefited by a poor performance of the three big teams in the competition. This Real Madrid, which has 39 points, in fact, would have been the leader of the competition after matchday 16 in six of the last 10 editions of the championship. But this year it doesn’t work for him.
Míchel’s evaluation
“I don’t know if we will be able to hold up to the level of Barça, Real Madrid and Athletic for an entire season, but the team’s performance makes me very happy, these players are truly making history,” Míchel expressed on Sunday, after achieving the first victory in the club’s history visiting FC Barcelona.
Alavés and Atlético at home and Betis away are the three obstacles that separate Girona from finishing the first round as the leader. The last team other than Barça, Madrid and Atlético that was ‘winter champion’ It was Valencia in the 2003-04 season… and ended up lifting the title.
Whether Girona achieves it or not, its season is already exceptional. So much so that in 16 days they have already reached the 40 points that are usually considered necessary to seal the permanence. And we should not forget that this was the main objective of the course. She has had more than half a season left to achieve it and now she has license to dream.
2023-12-11 10:27:43
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