Girona continues to show that everything they are achieving at the beginning of the season is no coincidence. And on the day of Míchel’s centenary match as coach from Girona, his disciples gave him a new victory during the visit of Almería.
The Andalusians, who wanted to make good the saying of “new coach –Gaizka Garitano–, sure victory”, started with a 0-2 that gave them hope of achieving their first victory. But the people of Girona reacted again and completed another spectacular comeback by scoring five goals, the first three in just 6 minutes, the work of Iván Martín, Dovbyk twice, Savinho and Stuani.
The start was reminiscent of the duel a few days ago against Mallorca, in which the Catalans also started losing due to an early goal, without practically having woken up. This time it had not even reached the second minute of play when, in a throw-in poorly defended by the locals, Leo Baptistao made a space between David López and Blind to take a center-shot that Gazzaniga put into the goal.
The problem for Girona was that despite having chances to tie, such as a goal disallowed by Iván Martín due to offside by Eric Garcia or a shot by David López that came off the post, another error by Yangel before the half hour mark Herrera cost them 0-2. The Venezuelan gave a ball in the middle of the field that led to a counterattack led by Embarba and which Baptistao finished off again, taking advantage of the rebound from the Argentine goalkeeper.
But far from giving up and giving up the game as lost, the people from Girona activated comeback mode and, like the day against Mallorca, they were able to score five goals, the first three in one shot in six minutes.
The 1-2 came in the 37th minute, when Iván Martín took advantage of a magnificent pass from Aleix Garcia to masterfully define with a left-footed shot.
After two minutes the second fell. Artem Dovbyk silenced the most impatient crowd by collecting an assist from Blind that made it 2-2. And four minutes later, on the edge of half-time, the Ukrainian scored 3-2, his second goal, cooking the ball alone at the right corner of the area and feinting defenders until he made a space to place the ball away from Fernando’s reach. . A great goal.
The second half, on the other hand, began at a less frenetic pace and during the first minutes nothing happened, except for some movements on the benches. In Girona, Míchel rested the Ukrainian big scorer, who gave his place to Stuani. The Uruguayan this week expressed his desire to retire at Girona.
With Stuani on the field, Girona scored 4-2 which, taking into account the way the match had taken, seemed like the final one. Aleix Garcia once again filtered another delicious pass into space so that Savinho, until then more unnoticed than usual, drove until he shot the goalkeeper.
And in the midst of the euphoria of seeing one more day as winners, although this time the game had gone uphill, Stuani scored the fifth by finishing off an Arnau cross from the right.
The local party ended with the public waving and unanimously shouting “Let Montilivi bounce.”
The atypical note was David López’s public complaint against the referee, Ortiz Arias, whom he accused in Dazn of seriously insulting him. “We First Division players already know him. You can’t work like that, it’s very difficult. You are lacking in this regard, it insults you”
