Girona devastates Mallorca and takes the lead

Girona continues to make people fall in love, and it is not something subjective, you just need to see them play. At the moment, with this Saturday’s rout of Mallorca (5-3), Míchel’s men are provisional leaders of the First Division, that’s nothing, after six days, they have chained five wins in a row, and are putting pressure on Barça and Madrid.

Of course there is a lot of League left, of course at this point everything is still anecdotal, but for a club, for a city, that 16 years ago was struggling in Second B, what is being experienced at this beginning of the fourth season in the history of First It turns out to be extraordinarily large. Sixteen years ago, on September 23, 2007, Girona beat Vilajoyosa 2-1 in a Montilivi that had fallen into pieces and with less than 1,000 people in the stands. Yesterday Girona completed another great game that, at least for a few hours, will earn them the lead in First Division. And this is worth celebrating, even though Mallorca’s last two goals, with everything already decided, made up the result.

Courage and ambition

If Girona’s first half in Granada (0-3) could only be described as a masterpiece, the one Míchel’s team executed against Mallorca even deserves more superlative adjectives. Because the 4-1 that the score reflected perhaps fell short of the merits of the people from Girona. It has been a long time since we have seen a block as brave, ambitious and hungry as this one in Montilivi, or even more so, in the League.

They found themselves at 0-1 at the start, thanks to a penalty by Tsygankov three minutes into the game that Muriqi converted, but that only served to wake up the beast. Before the tying goal, by David López, the locals locked up Mallorca. It was a constant siege, to which the goal prize was resisted. With the tie, Mallorca no longer felt so comfortable with their game plan. And Míchel’s men, for their part, pushed by a dazzled fan base, showed no mercy to their rival. They simply devastated it by land, sea and air, with two daggers on the wings like Savinho, again fantasy, or Yan Coutoand stilettos ready to score goals one after another.

Let’s go in parts. With Girona already overturned with the match tied, a penalty that González Fuertes reviewed in the VAR at the hands of Samu Costa allowed Dovbyk to put his team ahead, with suspense, because the ball hit the post and went in. The cyclone no longer had an end: a cartoon play by Savinho against Maffeo served Iván Martín 3-1, and shortly after Yangel converted the fourth with a cross shot far from Rajkovic’s reach. A bathroom.

The challenge against Real Madrid

Others would have had enough. This Girona, no. Mallorca introduced Amath in search of something that would change the script of the game. He didn’t find it. Meanwhile, the locals continued doing their thing. Montilivi made the wave and Savinho appeared again to score the fifth.

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Without putting aside his ambition, Míchel could afford to start reserving players. On Wednesday it’s time to travel to Villarreal before Real Madrid arrives at Montilivi next Saturday. Tsygankov, Dovbyk, Eric Garcia, with approximately an hour in their boots, gave way to Portu, Stuani, who missed the sixth after an angelic assist from Savinho, and Juanpe. Later Pablo Torre i Valery also had their chance, replacing an applauded Savinho and Yangel.

Mallorca, two minutes from time and in added time, closed the gap with two goals from Abdón Prats. An anecdote, at that point. The only thing left to do was let the minutes pass, faced with the delirium of Montilivi, who already dreams of playing for the lead alone against Madrid next Saturday.