Girona falls headlong into Getafe's trap

GIRONAGirona have spent the whole week working with one objective. They just had to avoid something. Just one. And the work lasted three minutes, the time in which Krejci got involved, allowing Getafe to take the lead. From then on, the lack of ideas of some was added to the blind faith of others in causing the game to be played as little as possible. This is football, dad, they say (1-2).

Montilivi, who whistled again, desperate at the lack of local creativity, will have to change its objective and its mentality. The refrain of going to Europe is unbearable, considering that the team is suffering from an attack of amnesia, unable to remember how to play a sport that it excelled at last year. Gazzaniga was the one who carried the weight of the creation, and the fact that the goalkeeper is the figure who has to assume that role already defines that there is a problem in front of them.

The other is in the head, because the players seem not to believe in what their coach asks of them; unlike a Getafe that will like it more or less, that will waste more or less time, that will provoke, commit fouls and pretend, but that feels the proposal as if it came from within. Many teams would like to have this. Even Terrats, one of the heroes of Girona's promotion in 2022, is on a good footing and defends these ideals to the death, despite his arrival. He left, covered by an Oriol Romeu who, two years later, is a shadow of what he was.

The pessimism that is accentuated around Girona does not help either. The dynamic is bad: first it was in play, and now it is also bad in results: they have lost six of the last seven games, and have only won three of the last fifteen. In attack, almost none of the signings have worked, but the responsibility is not exclusive to this area, because without anyone filtering balls, it is impossible for anyone to finish them. Stuani was a starter, who had not been a starter in the League since November 2023.

Arthur's debut

Arthur, who had a few minutes, is the chosen one to turn it around. The Brazilian is lucky to have a sublime Yangel Herrera at his side. He is going all out and his great effort was rewarded with the equaliser, a header that was impossible for Soria. The goalkeeper then shone on a chance from Tsygankov. But the joy was short-lived, also for the Venezuelan, who was sent off.

It was Mayoral, on the first ball he touched, who was singled out to take advantage of a faulty rebound from Gazzaniga. A complete mess before the final one, that of being left with fewer men. Getafe did not draw any lines before time, nor did they make a mistake jumping to press. Girona changed their system but were lost. Like Míchel, who touched so many pieces that he was without a centre forward for a long time, until Miovski came on in the 94th minute. He did not touch the ball.