Girona panics and buys numbers for relegation

GironaThe night was dark from the start. Everything failed, in Montilivi. Well, not everything, everything except the fans. The people really knew what was at stake. Instead, Girona only realized it when they were already in deep trouble against Mallorca (0-1). Míchel's team had no response right when they could least afford to fail. The details also didn't help, because Echeverri missed a clear goal and two balls hit the post, and despite staying out of the relegation zone this matchday, it could still get much closer - now they are four points away and Sevilla plays on Monday - and the third consecutive defeat will force them to suffer until the end of the championship. They hadn't lost three games in a row since the first three matchdays of the League.

The team did not live up to the circumstances. Neither did Míchel, who, in a coach's attack, sacrificed the ball exit that Blind usually generates from the inner lanes, placing the Dutchman on the wing, where he loses influence. Girona, moreover, is suffering from the fact that it reached May with its fuel tank on reserve and, of course, it does not have a reference striker, with Vanat lost due to a serious injury. His substitute, Echeverri, shows logical sins of inexperience and youth. He could have left with honors, amid hugs and kisses, and as a hero, but with a 0-0 score and all the time in the world, he sent a one-on-one to Leo Román's feet on the occasion that should have catapulted the team into ecstasy.

Míchel, booed

The Balearics, who started the match below Girona in the table and are now above them, with theIf the tension with the draw was evident, with the disadvantage it was already terrible. Montilivi was a bag of nerves. Victory was essential for tranquility, and a draw, the least bad outcome. What should not have happened, under any circumstances, was a defeat, which opens a crisis of unpredictable consequences. With these ingredients, then, the team was forced to make a virtue of necessity. They shook off the silliness, changed their attitude, and decided to bite. Whether too late or not, time would tell (spoiler, too late).

In a vibrant fifteen minutes of the second half, Girona threw themselves into the opponent's half as if possessed and nothing else mattered. Even Mallorca became uneasy. There, luck eluded the Gerona team's attempts, who hit the post twice in a very rapid sequence of attack. First, Joel Roca; then, Ounahi. The player from Camprodon and the Moroccan made the woodwork tremble with two actions that further highlighted the initial ineffectiveness. No matter how you look at it, it's incomprehensible. In the final stretch, Stuani and Bryan Gil sought the equalizer, but were not accurate. There are 4 finals left.