He Girona of Míchel Sánchez has managed to subject the Atlético de Madrid in Montilivi (4-3), with an epic goal from Iván Martín in the 91st minute, to nullify Álvaro Morata’s hat-trick and close the first round of LaLiga EA Sports as co-leader, tied at 48 points out of a possible 57 with Real Madrid.
Valery Fernández, Sávio Moreira and Daley Blind scored the first three goals for Girona, which already has ten points more than Diego Pablo Simeone’s team and 20 more than Betis: the first team out of European places. He has collected 29 of the last 32 points: It has been eleven days without falling. Add only one point less than in the entire last year. And he has already surpassed his ceiling of victories in First Division, even with half a tournament left. It was the first victory for Girona and Míchel against Atlético, to the delight of a fan who in 2024 dreams of the Champions League and even LaLiga. Atlético suffered its fourth league defeat on the road.
Girona already warned in the first minute: Sávio ran down the right wing and put the ball on the edge of the area for Artem Dovbyk. The shot from the 9th hit Jan Oblak’s left post, although the referee annulled the action for offside. The goal came before two minutes were up. Pablo Torre enabled Valery Fernández and the Catalan captain unbalanced his defense and beat Oblak with a cross shot from the edge of the area.
Atlético, overwhelmed in the initial stretch, took a step forward, forced by circumstances: they were ten points behind Madrid and Girona. The visitors began to create danger and found the goal before the quarter of an hour, with a cross shot from Morata impossible for Paulo Gazzaniga. The VAR validated Antoine Griezmann’s header assist by centimeters and the tenth goal in LaLiga of the 19 colchonero went up to the electronic.
The match was tied at 1-1: Atlético calmed down and Girona regained part of the initiative. Sávio, omnipresent, continually overwhelmed Samuel Lino. Theirs was the 2-1: Iván Martín took advantage of a distraction from Koke to stand up against Oblak (26′). The goalkeeper repelled his shot with a great save, but Savio He picked up the rebound and scored at will. Griezmann and Couto were able to extend the score. Did Blind in the 39th minute: Aleix García served a corner kick, Dovbyk extended the spur ball and Blind put it into the far post. Girona’s 45th goal in 19 League games unleashed euphoria in the Montilivi stands.
The game seemed well on track, but in the 44th minute Morata He gave Atlético hope to face the second half: he collected a through pass from Rodrigo de Paul, left Èric García behind and beat Gazzaniga with the tip of his boot. The 19th made it 3-3 a minute later, but was clearly in an offside position.
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The frenetic first act gave way to an outstanding start to the second half by the visiting team. Gazzaniga, providential, neutralized two clear shots from Griezmann and a point-blank shot from Marcos Llorente. But the goalkeeper couldn’t do anything to avoid the Morata’s hat-trick. It was in the 54th minute: De Paul drove and dressed as an assistant again to enable Morata to hit the ball over the goal.
If at half-time Simeone had withdrawn Lino to protect himself from Sávio’s attacks, after 3-3 Míchel made his move because Girona was clearly surpassed by its rival: Arnau Martínez, Jhon Solís and Cristhian Stuani came in for Valery Fernández, Torre and Dovbyk. Before leaving the green Dovbyk almost scored after a piece of genius from Torre.
The match, fast-paced and non-stop, opened up and could have gone either way. And it fell on the local side: in the 91st minute, two minutes after Simeone replaced Morata and Griezmann with César Azpilicueta and Saúl Ñíguez, giving the tie as good, Ivan Martin He made it 4-3 with a shot into the top corner. Montilivi went crazy.
Datasheet
Girona FC, 4: Gazzaniga; Yan Couto, Eric, Blind, Miguel; Aleix García; Valery Fernández (Jhon Solís, min. 59), Iván Martín, Pablo Torre (Arnau, min. 67), Sávio; and Dovbyk (Stuani, min. 67)
Atlético de Madrid, 3: Oblak; Riquelme (Correa, min. 77), José María Giménez, Witsel, Hermoso, Lino (Molina, mini. 46); Llorente, Koke, Rodrigo De Paul (Memphis, min. 86); Morata (Azpilicueta, min. 89) and Griezmann (Saúl, min. 89)
Goals: 1-0, min. 2: Valery. 1-1, min. 14: Morata. 2-1, min. 26: Savio. 3-1, min. 39: Blind. 3-2, min. 44: Morata. 3-3, min. 54: Morata. 4-3, min. 91: Ivan Martin
Referee: Hernández Hernández (Canarian committee). He admonished the visitor Hermoso (min. 90)
Incidences: Match of the nineteenth day of LaLiga EA Sports, played at the Estadi Municipal de Montilivi in front of 13,804 fans
2024-01-03 22:29:55
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