An unknown Girona stayed on the shore. On the shore, dejected in Mallorca because he had a horrible match that prevented him from reaching the semifinals of the Copa del Rey. A cursed border because Míchel’s team was disfigured in a horrible first half that left them on that shore that is so difficult to reach.
Not even against 10 did he have the football and the tranquility necessary to break down that now insurmountable barrier. It was a sterile and inconsequential team, as if it had not understood the historical dimension of the event. Accustomed to drawing pages for memory, he wrote a doodle on the islands, whichThe goals from Stuani and Savinho, who arrived late, were not resolved. Late and bad like Girona.
At 34 minutes, 3-0
The worst match. And the worst opening half hour for Girona in these six months full of exploits. And at the worst moment because he arrived in Mallorca and did not appear. She forgot the start time of the meeting. Not even the first two warnings from Aguirre’s team acted as a wake-up call for a sleepy and clueless Gironí team. He wasn’t on the grass.
When he realized, around the 34th minute, he was already losing 3-0, something never seen before.. Something unknown to Míchel who was outraged by the disconcerting play of his team. Such was his anger that in the 22nd minute, and with the score already 2-0, he ordered Pablo Torre, Portu and Yan Couto to warm up.
Tiger and lion: Dani Rodríguez and Cyle Larin.
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Girona’s defensive structure, with Arnau, Antal, Blind and Miguel, was instantly stripped bare. It was not only the responsibility of the back four but of a team that did not have the control of the game that it was supposed to. Nor the intensity that deserved to earn a place in the Copa del Rey semi-finals, a border that had never been crossed before.
Chaotic first half
Once the chaotic first half was over, the best had been Juan Carlos, the goalkeeper of the Copaero tournament, who was sold on the three goals, also leaving two very good saves beforehand. Only Larin at 1-0 after a horrible collective action by Girona. Soft on Blind’s clearance before Abdón’s impressive shot at 2-0. And rookie Antal made a mistake by throwing the offside ball in a bad way in the penalty to complete the 3-0 scoreline settled by Abdón.
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Aguirre, the Mallorca coach, designed a perfect match plan, which had the complicity of Girona. Complicity and apathy. He only committed one foul in 45 minutes. And it was Antal’s hand, detected by the VAR, proof of that non-appearance that unnerved Míchel.
The anger of the Vallecas coach had a double decision at half-time: Dovbyk by Yangel Herrera, horrible first half of yours, to play with two nines. AND Yan Couto by Arnau. But the second half started with another clear chance for Mallorca because Larin ran faster than Antal before unleashing a dangerous shot.
Not against 10
But the impact of 3-0 was devastating. Both emotionally and football-wise because Abdón and Larin, the two attackers of the Balearic team, organized a party in Son Moix. A party that even had fireworks. And the late Mallorcan night was consumed without football or hope for a downcast Girona until Stuani caused a penalty, which had an added reward: two yellow cards for Raíllo. Two yellow cards and expulsion.
Suddenly, the match took on a radically different landscape with that 3-1 and Girona playing against 10. In that landscape, and despite the anguish of being eliminated from the Cup from the first half hour, they only had to appeal to patience and, above all, to the essence of his football.
He was impatient because that essence was not seen in Mallorca, Aguirre was accustomed to handling arid and unpleasant matches that nullified even Savinho’s magic, eclipsing Dovbyk. The Brazilian started on the left wing and in the second half he moved to the right. But there was no trace of his poisonous dribbling nor of his precise crossing until Savinho emerged in added time to feed a hope when the stopwatch almost indicated the way to the locker room.
2024-01-24 20:43:33
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