At the start of the new year, Girona is still not giving up. The amazing Catalan club has the same number of points as La Liga leader Real Madrid at the end of the first leg. On Wednesday evening, the member of the City Group was under pressure when challenging Atlético Madrid, while Real had just painfully beaten Mallorca (1-0, goal from Rüdiger in the 79th minute).
But the teammates of captain Valery, first scorer of a crazy evening, ensured by dominating the Colchoneros (4-3), now relegated to 10 points from the leading duo. Alvaro Morata scored all three Madrid goals, and successively allowed his team to equalize at 1-1, then return to 3-2 and finally to 3-3. Before a powerful strike from Ivan Martin in stoppage time (90th+1) allowed Girona to defeat the “mattressers”.
Grizou still has to wait
Antoine Griezmann, who missed a face-to-face with the goalkeeper, will wait a little longer to overtake the legend Luis Aragones, with whom he shares the club’s goals record (173). By then, his team will perhaps have given up its third place, if FC Barcelona, currently 4th with the same number of points (38) does not lose this Thursday in Las Palmas.