Survival exercise

As has rarely been seen and with a totally different face, Girona took the prize from Getafe. Not many were displaced to Madrid. The rival, the team’s situation and some other factor perhaps was not enough to fill the visiting stands of the Coliseum on an afternoon marked by the exercise of survival that characterized Míchel’s team.

It was, precisely, the Vallecano coach who recognized at the end of the clash that his team did not show itself with its style of play, with the level or characteristics to which we are accustomed. Even so, it was a match where the people of Girona learned something that had not yet occurred during the course: how to emerge victorious from a match in which they had to row constantly.

And that’s how you win too. At times, Girona seemed to be dressed in blue due to the number of situations in which the rival focused and tried to reach the area. However, The ‘gironins’ knew how to give their rival their own medicinesomething they have suffered numerous times. The team, for the first time – and seeing that control of the match slipped away on too many occasions due to the difficult circumstances that the squad is experiencing -, knew how to take advantage of what it had been suffering for several weekends: effectiveness.

Girona had two shots on goal, once in each half of the game. The one from the second half It starred Selviin a distant shot, while the first was enough to win three points that leave the Catalans two points behind Europe, despite the adversities.

It was history turned upside down in a few months where the adversities continue determined to stop the illusion of debuting in the Champions League, but the team decided to stick together and go to the break in an exercise of courage that gave three golden points to regain good feelings.