CD Tenerife 2-0 Girona FC
For laziness the fish also dies
A too tender Girona succumbs on his visit to Tenerife (2-0) and his good streak is cut.
Yan Couto and Yoel Bárcenas searched but never found Cristhian Stuani
Javi Alonso and Yan Couto fight for a ball (Twitter @GironaFC)
Not just by mouth. Fish also die from indolence. If they don't swim fast enough, the most normal thing is that they end up being swallowed by the hungry shark on duty. And Girona suffered in its scales the law of the strongest. Francisco's team was too tender and harmless a fish and it succumbed to the teeth of Fran Sol, Nono and company. The final 2-0 relieved the locals, and neutralized the good run of results carried by the visitors. A miserable brooch for a miserable year.
Some visitors who began showing off what they had been up to now. Absolute ball dominance and joc bonic by Monchu and Samu Sáiz in the midfield. The first one traveled everywhere, seconded by a dizzying Yan Couto and Yoel Bárcenas. What a right wing Francisco has. However, Sáiz little by little began to lose balls and, in this way, compromise a Girona located in the most offensive levels of the Tenerife field. And with the lines widely separated. And with very little commitment.
The Tenerife shark, always well planted, would take advantage of these circumstances. Ramis's men profited from the puny Gironine. With less showiness, but more determination and intelligence. Girona's decompensation was shocking: if the aforementioned Couto and Bárcenas caused havoc on the right, Sáiz and Franquesa made waters on the left-handed flank. Tenerife's first goal came from a set piece. And it came, obviously, before the visitor laziness: the center was finished off by Bruno Wilson, accompanied by two teammates. Home alone, like good old Macaulay Culkin. White and in a fishbowl.
Girona did not collapse and continued with its plan. His plan to dominate, but also his plan to not even threaten in the area. It looked like a handball team. The area is lava! There was no news from Cristhian Stuani, only in the face of danger. Mamadou wanted but couldn't. The Sylla effect from the beginning of the season seems to have evaporated.
Šipčić, Fran Sol, Javi Alonso and Bruno Wilson celebrate the first goal (AS)
Instead, the Fran Sol effect kept splashing. And how! The best player of the match finished off a great exercise in faith by right-winger Shaq Moore. The American believed in his speed when all the Girona players assumed that the ball would be lost over the baseline. Well no. Moore ended up serving a Sun who took the final bite. Headdress and fish.
Francisco's substitutions in the second half were more focused on alleviating wear than on retouching the team. The Gironi fan had to accept the departure of the devout Bárcenas and Couto and, thus, the progress of his team's chances of scoring at the Heliodoro. Neither Aday nor Nahuel Bustos were revulsive. In fact, the second was expelled, rigorously, after facing an Alberto Jiménez who also saw the red for the same set. Soccer is becoming more and more like ballet.
The second round was a carbon copy of the first. Fran Sol was having a blast while Girona overcooked the dish. But he was not putting it in his mouth. Harmless possessions, surprising turnovers, and a worrying lack of intensity. Few offensive offers, little movement and no football production. Girona used to have rice. He would end up bleeding completely and end up dying of indolence.