Girona celebrates against Almería

He Girona thrashed this Friday 6-2 in the direct duel against Almeria with so many of Taty Castellanos, Víktor Tsygankov, Rodrigo Riquelme, Javi Hernández, Iván Martín and Christian Stuani. The bulky victory takes them seven points away from relegation to stay just six from the Conference League after a match in which Míchel Sánchez’s men made them dream of Europe to their fans.

The Catalan team left behind the terrible image shown in the defeat against Cadiz (2-0) last week and offered a festival of play and goals in a first part that will be remembered for a long time in Montilivi. The Almeria of Rubyunrecognizable and who scored the goals of honor through Ramazani and El Bilal Toureremains two points from relegation.

Castellanos breaks the streak

Despite being able to count on Stuani, who served a suspension last day, Míchel once again trusted taty castellanos as the offensive reference of Girona. The Argentine striker, who accumulated five consecutive games without scoringhe only needed eight minutes to open the scoring.

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In a transition play, the ball came to him arnau martinez on the right wing of the attack and Premià de Dalt’s full-back placed a millimeter cross with his left leg at the far post, where Taty Castellanos appeared to finish off the ball with her head and make it 1-0 despite the fact that Ferdinand came to touch the ball.

disallowed goal

This great performance of the local team was already about to become 2-0 before the half hour of play. Once again, Taty Castellanos finished off at the far post to put the ball into the net, this time diving to the ground after a cross from Aleix García. But the referee annulled it at the behest of the VAR for a previous offside.

Meanwhile, Almería, stunned, showed himself unable to stop the gale from Girona. And the worst for the Andalusians was yet to come. The 2-0 finally came in minute 34. Riquelme assisted with a header and Tsygankov He finished off at will to get his first goal with the Catalan team.

And, just after taking Almería out of the midfield, Mendes he lost the ball on the right flank and Girona’s counterattack ended with Rodrigo Riquelme putting the toe in to beat Fernando. It was 3-0 and, despite the cold, at that time there was no better place than Montilivi to celebrate Carnival.

Tsygankov, huge

Girona’s game infected its fans and, led by an immense Tsygankov, the local team found multiple spaces in the leaky defense from Almeria. Precisely, the Ukrainian assisted in the 43rd minute with a delicate back-heeled pass to Javi Hernández to make it 4-0 and sentence the match before the break.

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On the Almería bench, Rubi, desperate at what he was witnessing, ordered various players to warm up as a remedy to avoid a Bleeding which was taking enormous dimensions. The visiting coach made four swing changes on the break. Mendes, Samu Costa, Leo Baptistao and Adrián Embarba were the victims.

A punctual oasis

Almería, who after this Friday’s game have only won one of their last eight league matches, little by little established themselves on the pitch and Luis Suarez He began to bother the Girona defense, although without creating any clear scoring opportunity until Ramazani made it 4-1 in the 67th minute.

It was a simple punctual oasis for Almeria. In ’77, on the first ball he touched, Iván Martín raised the 5-1 with a shot with the inside of the right foot and, in 79, Girona liked it. Toni Villa put the ball in the area, Iván Martín himself assisted with his heel and stuanialso in the first ball he touched, He shot Fernando for 6-1.

The game still had time to make it 6-2, the work of The Bilal Toure in the 81st minute after getting rid of Paulo Gazzaniga and scoring on an empty goal and to see the debut of the young Ricard Artero in Girona. Complete party for the local team and terrifying night for Almería.

Data sheet:

Girona: Gazzaniga; Arnau, Santi Bueno, Juanpe, Javi Hernández; Romeu, Aleix Garcia; Tsygankov (Toni Villa, min. 65), Borja García (Artero, min. 83), Riquelme (Iván Martín, 76); and Castellanos (Stuani, min. 76).

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Almeria: Fernando; Mendes (Ramazani, min. 46), Ely, Babic, Akieme (Centelles, min. 80); De la Hoz, Samu Costa (Chumi, min. 46); Robertone; Baptistao (Arnau Puigmal, min. 46), Luis Suárez and Embarba (El Bilal, min. 46).

goals: 1-0: Taty Castellanos, min. 8; 2-0: Viktor Tsygankov, min. 3. 4; 3-0: Rodrigo Riquelme, min. 36; 4-0: Javi Hernandez, min. 43. 4-1: Largie Ramazani, min. 67. 5-1: Iván Martín, min. 77. 6-1: Christian Stuani, min. 79. 6-2: The Bilal Toure, min. 81.