The dream continues. The party doesn’t stop. Unlocking at every step new stadiums, such as the Nuevo Mirandilla. Challenge after challenge, football smiles at Girona wherever it goes. In the Bay of Cadiz he added three more points and the seventh victory in nine games. God forbid. But the match was not a military outing, but rather an interwar drama.
Míchel’s men played more than 90 minutes (including added time) with one more due to the sending off of Darwin Machís, and even so they did not manage to win with authority. A goal from Aleix García in the second half decided the match. But until the end, the locals discussed the victory of the revelation of the championship. And so, suffering, he also knows how to win very well.
The game remained stuck in the trenches for the first half. There was hardly any danger in the areas and the interruptions were a constant. It was impossible for Girona to practice the happy football that has taken them to where they are, due to the unfortunate task of Cadiz, forced to dirty the game board to get positive things. After the first skirmishes, came the first action that began to decide the game: Machís exceeded in an inning with the studs on Yangel Herrera. The referee had no doubts and sent him to the shower. The VAR did hesitate, which created some excitement about the action, but then did nothing.
With one more man, Girona sharpened their dominance and took control of the ball, although not of the game. Winning at Nuevo Mirandilla this season is not an easy task, even in superiority. Sergio González ordered a line of five defenders at the front of the area with three men in front, against which Girona crashed again and again. There was no way to penetrate inside, and outside they rarely generated superiority. Cadiz’s work had an effect and at half-time, after ten minutes of added time, Girona had not shot between the three posts.
The start of the second half offered a different dynamic. Girona found a little more lucidity thanks to the appearances of Savinho on the left and Dovyk, surrounded by a crowd of rivals all afternoon. A combination between the two meant the visiting team’s first shot on goal, which Ledesma deflected for a corner.
Míchel’s team continued to tilt the field until the siege was complete. And with Cádiz besieged, Aleix García unleashed a shot from the front that overcame an opponent with great effect and entered the left post of the Cádiz goal (59).
Cadiz reacted in a final in which they resorted to the epic to look for a miracle and which took a long time for Míchel and his team. But with the frog this Girona also showed patience, which does not come down from the cloud in which it lives.
