The challenges are piling up for the no longer so surprising Girona, the fashionable team in Spain and, without a doubt, one of the teams on the lips of any football fan in Europe. With the vitola of revelation already old, it is now reality that marks the news of the Catalan group. “What they are doing is absolutely deserved,” Ernesto Valverde praised them yesterday. Athletic is precisely the team that visits Montilivi tonight for another very special evening of football.
Míchel’s men have won five consecutive days, a streak to which they must add the cup triumph, and they are going to have to add another if they want to stay at the top of the EA Sports League after Real Madrid’s victory yesterday in Cádiz, a result which placed the whites as leaders in the absence of the Girona duel tonight. Another challenge for a team that week after week surpasses itself, leaving prejudices behind and convincing even the most incredulous.
Montilivi’s team has accumulated so many achievements that even their more than prudent coach begins to loosen up a little and admits what is inevitable, that his team is, for the moment, among the best in terms of results and play and that their aspirations should not have a ceiling. . “We have to go game by game – Míchel started off lukewarm in the preview, before raising the tone –, but we want to stay at the top. We can have a historic season.”
Athletic is, for the moment, the team that marks the line of those that will play in Europe next season, which even gives more meaning to the clash. “We need the balls that reach Sancet and the Williams to be from their backs,” Míchel pointed out as one of the keys to the match. “We will have to be careful if the game opens because Girona attacks with a lot of people,” responded Valverde, who has problems in the center of defense due to injuries to Yeray Álvarez and Aitor Paredes.
