Girona took the victory in the duel against Real Valladolid that kicked off the 18th day of LALIGA EA Sports with a new exhibition by Miguel Gutiérrez. The left-handed back was the best of the Gironí team with two assists while rumors about a possible return to Real Madrida club that owns 50% of its rights.
Miguel, a priori left backdisplayed for the umpteenth time the football intelligence that Míchel Sánchez, his coach, has highlighted so much, and He shone again from the interior or midfield positionappearing in all parts of the pitch and punishing the Valladolid defense.
Half an hour into the game he added the luckiest assist of the 18 he has distributed as a Girona player, with a free kick from the edge of the area that hit David López and made it 1-0, but in the 39th minute he assisted Abel Ruiz with all the intention in the worldwith a measured center.
Along with Viktor Tsygakov, he is now the player with the most assists for the Catalan team in First Division with 14 assists on goals.ahead of Portu (13), Aleix García (12) and Yan Couto and Savinho (10).
Miguel Gutiérrez, indispensable in Girona
It was the 26th game of the season for Girona and it was Miguel's 24th participation, 23rd start and 22nd complete game.. He has played 540 minutes in the Champions League, with a goal in the victory against Slovan Bratislava, and 1,522 of 1,620 in LaLiga EA Sports: he did not play due to rotations in the September defeat against Valencia and Míchel forgave him eight minutes in the October victory against Espanyol (4-1).
In the Copa del Rey he played the second half of the first round match against Extremadura (0-4) and did not travel to Logroño for rest, where Girona was sadly eliminated against a Segunda RFEF team.
It is an absolutely key and essential piece for Míchel, to the point that it is, by far the most used footballer since he landed in Montilivi in the summer of 2022after the club's return to Primera and coming from Real Madrid: he is first in this ranking ahead of Paulo Gazzaniga and Cristhian Stuani (90), Iván Martín (86), Arnau Martínez (82), Aleix García (72), David López (67) and Yangel Herrera (66).
In the 2022-2023 season, his first in Girona, he was the fifth player with the most minutes (2,579) and only completed 13 games, but the past and present year is already second on the list, only behind Gazzaniga. And just barely: there are 3,420 and 2,160 minutes for the Argentine goalkeeper and 3,374 and 2,106 for the Madrid goalkeeper, who has changed from full-back to all-rounder under the leadership of Míchel.
Real Madrid owns 50% of the player's rights, with a contract at Montilivi until 2027and his name frequently appears on the covers as a future target, but for now it continues to fuel his growth and his figure as a red-and-white player. He is one of the undisputed leaders of a Girona team that has closed an excellent 2024 for third place in LaLiga and its debut in the Champions League and that wants to return to Europe in 2025.
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