They rule the League with 48 points, the same as Madrid. Is he Girona by Michel the top scoring team of the tournament, after scoring 46 goals, six more than the whites. He has left Atlético, a candidate to enter the Champions League, at 10 points and has Betis, seventh ranked and the first team out of European positions, at 20.
But those astonishing figures (48 points out of a possible 57) only certify the modern, choral and daring game of Girona, transformed into the sensation of Spanish football. And European. Even global. It is not what he wins but how he wins it, erected as the flag of the offensive game, which fuses verticality with patience and giving Montilivi the role of the new temple of the ball.
Only Barça, Madrid and Atlético had achieved so many points before. And now Girona has joined such a select club.
1. “It was a great game, a historic night”
Míchel was exultant. Even excited. His eyes were glassy when he took the lap of honor in Montilivi after a monumental victory over Atlético, which he came in added time. “It is a historic night for the team, for the club, for the city, for the province. He has been a great game,” confessed the Vallecas coach after experiencing a roller coaster of emotions.
A spectacular first part of his team. “The 3-2 upset us a little,” he acknowledged after Morata’s second goal that came just before the break. This caused the first quarter of an hour of the second half to be dominated by Atlético. “In the end, anyone could have won. But we won with a great goal from Iván Martín,” added Míchel.
2. “My team has had incredible resilience”
“Morata said the other day that for Girona to be at the top they have to score between 90 and 100 goals. He is somewhat right,” Míchel revealed. And they are in that projection because they add 46 in 19 days. Nobody scores more than them. Neither Madrid, nor Barça, nor Atlético, nor Real Sociedad, nor Betis.
The Vallecas coach has built a voracious offensive team, capable of adding four to Simeone’s solid work, without the need for Dovbyk, his nine, to score any. He also scored four other goals against Barça in Montjuïc.
“My two centre-halfs, Aleix and Iván, are very offensive. When we don’t have the ball, sometimes we suffer. But the team has had resilience to hold on and hold on until we wait for our moment. In the end we found the prize. My players have a mentality incredible,” said Míchel after defeating Atlético.
3. “We cannot fight face to face with Madrid”
“Our dream is Europe, but we cannot fight face to face with Madrid,” said Míchel.proud of the response of his team that opens a huge gap with Betis, which marks the frontier by being the first team outside the European positions.
“We have it at 20 points,” stressed the Madrid coach, happy because he also distances himself from Atlético, which remains at 10 when the League begins its second round. “Maintaining the level of points that the big teams are going to achieve is going to be very difficult. You just have to dream of entering Europe and going game by game,” said the coach.
4. “Iván Martín is the great unknown of Girona”
Míchel had a game plan. Plan that was modified, especially in the second half when Atlético took over Montilivi. “The entry of Solís has given us a lot of strength and energy because Aleix and Iván have good footing, but physically they are not top defensively,” confessed the coach, after acknowledging that his team suffered a lot in the initial quarter of an hour of the second half, supported by Gazzaniga, who made up to nine stops.
“When things happen from going to both areas, and we saw it with Barça, we are capable of doing damage“, declared Míchel. And everything was summed up in Iván Martín’s shot to unleash madness in Montilivi.
“I call him the great unknown of the Girona game. He trains incredibly, he contributes to the dressing room, he is capable of making others better, he always gives you a passing line or gives an extra effort for his teammate in the pressure. When there are problems he “He wants to keep the ball. Why don’t people value that? Well, the locker room, yes,” Míchel explained.
And Iván Martín kept it until he released that left-footed shot to create an epic tie and frame a memorable first lap.
2024-01-04 13:23:49
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