Girona confirmed in Montjuïc that it has no intention of dropping from the noble zone of the classification, once again leader of the EA Sports League, and Barça confirmed that it is not going through the best moment, defeated and at times powerless against Girona. The enthusiasm of Míchel’s team for a historic victory contrasted after the final whistle with the disappointment of the Blaugrana.
“It’s a tough defeat. We haven’t been good. Girona have been good, but it’s our fault. We haven’t been at the level. We haven’t been good with the ball, neither have I, especially in the first half, and that has cost us the match,” lamented a sad-faced Frenkie De Jong at the DAZN microphone after the conclusion of the match.
With the defeat, Barça falls to fourth position in the League and moves even further away from the top of the League as matchday 16 of the championship is completed. “We are seven points away, but there is more than half of the season left. There is time to turn around,” continued the Dutchman, who remains hopeful of turning the situation around although with homework to do.
“We have to improve. We are very disappointed but there is a lot of League left. We have to work hard, and see if we can come back,” concluded De Jong, especially surpassed in Girona’s second goal before the break.
Miguel Gutiérrez’s face was very different when addressing the media, exultant for a historic victory, Girona’s first against Barça. “Very happy, really. It’s something indescribable. We’ve done a great job. Very happy for the team, for the city in general and for all the fans who have supported us. It’s something very big,” said the full-back.
Furthermore, Gutiérrez was the protagonist of the victory by scoring Girona’s second goal after making a great drive and finishing the play with a powerful shot that entered near the right corner defended by Iñaki Peña. “I hit it with my toe, I saw it clearly,” he said about his goal.
After Madrid’s failure at the Benito Villamarín, Girona is once again the sole leader with two points ahead of the whites as we approach the halfway point of the season. “We’re going to see how far we get. We’re doing things well at the moment. We have to continue working as we have been up to now. Of course we believe it,” concluded the defender about the options of singing the alirón, a goal that no one in Girona I had in mind at the beginning of the season.
“We knew that we had to have personality, have the ball, that they ran behind us. Iván Martín played a great game, he connected those behind with those above. We did it perfectly,” explained Aleix García, protagonist in the run-up to the duel for expressing his desire to play for Barça.
“We have made history. It is the first victory against Barça. The coach told us that we had to turn around the moments of suffering with our style. We have had many scoring chances,” insisted the captain of the Girona team.
The victory was special for Eric Garcia, on loan from Barça to the club from the north of Catalonia. “When I made the decision I spoke with Míchel. I was looking for a team where I could be important and demonstrate my qualities. We are enjoying it, I didn’t imagine it, to be honest. The greats are going to be there. Competing against Barça, Madrid and Atlético is complicated. I know “What this is, I know what it’s like to subdue the opponent,” analyzed the centre-back, who acknowledged his suffering in the first stages of the game: “We had to know how to suffer. We knew it was going to be a complicated game. I was suffocated for the first 20 minutes.” “.
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