It is paradoxical, but the team of the top scorer of Segona has a scary job to find the goal. What would have happened if this Girona had not convinced Cristhian Stuani to stay one more season in Montilivi? At the moment part of the scarce booty achieved by the team in the six games that have been played since the resumption (8 points out of 18, with two victories against Numancia and Zaragoza, two draws in Las Palmas and with Racing, and two defeats against Elche and Malaga) is explained by the drought: Girona, with only three goals, are with Las Palmas the team that has scored fewer goals in this section of the competition, it is not strange, then, that in the duel that disputed in Gran Canaria the result was of 0-0. Tenerife, Huesca, Alcorcón and Deportivo, four of the most fit teams since football returned, have scored nine goals in these six days.
Finding a way to fight the drought will be one of the headaches that the new coach, Francisco Rodríguez, will have to solve if he wants to dream as much as possible, still, with a possible direct promotion or at least qualify the team for the play-off. It’s a real mystery how Girona’s offensive arsenal has figured out the way it has done this season. Stuani has 25 of the team’s 43 goals, but to find the next most inspired player in front of the opponent’s goal you have to go back to the 5 made by Borja García. Samu Sáiz has just scored a pair, while Gallar and Jairo have yet to make their debut in the white-and-red shirt (the Catalan is scoring a goal this season, which he did in Las Palmas to give the victory in Huesca on the first day, shortly before his transfer took place). Another aspect that is missing is the strategy: in Segona many matches are resolved for what they call small details and Girona has not resolved a duel with a corner for centuries, for example (they often turn against it, as with Elche) or a foul. Stuani, who otherwise has scored two of the team’s three goals since the restart, one from the penalty spot, on Friday against Zaragoza. The other was the work of Samu Sáiz.
This little offensive power of the team contrasts with the solidity that has been gaining in defense. Saving unforgivable individual mistakes that have made them lose points in Elche and Malaga, in general the team has been solvent behind. Of particular importance here is the consolidation of Ignasi Miquel i Juanpe as a central pair, both with Pep Lluís Martí and the other day at the premiere of Francisco. Girona have only conceded three goals in six games, as many as they have scored. Two in Malaga, very avoidable, because one is born from a loss in the middle of the field after a foul in favor and the other in a against where Oliván is displaced and breaks the offside, and the other in Elche, in another game of unfortunate memory. Against Las Palmas, Racing, Numancia and Zaragoza, Riesgo’s goal has remained at zero. Keeping that efficiency behind but gaining offensive weight will be key in the remaining five finals and the top four that may come.
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