For Girona, the journey in the Champions League is like those lyrics from Extremoduro, living is a path paved with hours, minutes and seconds… A path full of thorns and obstacles in which the desire to enjoy transforms into a painful feeling . Only one victory in four days and a lot of erosion in its wake. In the Netherlands, another defeat, the third, unceremoniously in the locker.
Also in Eindhoven, the city of appliances and televisions, the Catalan team suffers, endures the bad experience of two goals against and the inexperience of its staging. Girona wants to play as always, play and playneat and attractive football, coming out with subtlety from his goalkeeper Gazzaniga despite the fact that in such compromised situations he has more to lose than gain.
PSV won’t let him, that bites with teeth fierce in the pressure of the Argentine goalkeeper, he carries out individual marking and does not allow Míchel’s players to combine. The game begins there, in that high pressure of the Dutch who trust in stealing one of the neat passes and taking the ball to the basket.
Girona takes action with personality and good taste. He arrives at the opponent’s area, sells his possible defeat dearly, measures the rival with arguments. Yangel Herrera heads alone to the center of the goal, Miovski finishes the dummy from point-blank range, one meter from the line. PSV is saved by millimeters and feels threatened, but does not relent in his push. He knows that his opportunity will come in any ball lost by the people of Girona.
They are two opposite worlds, the physical and vigorous football of the Dutch and the daring and technical game of the Spanish. PSV shoots from any position, close or far, in an advantageous position or without an easy shot. Finish all plays with total virulence.
In the fifteenth minute, after an interesting exchange of blows, the first goal arrived. A throw-in by Tillman, who is with one foot inside the field, is finished off without a prior touch and Flamingo opposition. Too easy.
Girona concedes the goal, appears less precise and begins to distrust what they are doing. PSV is a hammer, pure forward force. Bakayoko is the most dangerous, with their slaloms with changed legs. The second goal comes unexpectedly, in another poorly defended play by the Spanish defense, which Tillman culminates with an accurate shot.
The second half is an ordeal for Girona, who cannot survive the situation, the atmosphere and the magnitude of a competition that does not forgive mistakes. Girona makes many mistakes, due to youth, lack of experience. It happens with Arnau, the right back who ejects himself in an innocent attempt by putting his thigh in the path of an opponent who had surpassed him in dribbling. A bad decision and a very clear second yellow card that condemns Míchel’s team to play with ten until the end.
Everything happens near Gazzaniga’s area in the second period. And the goalkeeper insists, presumably according to the guidelines received, on playing on the foot, from boot to boot. The game asks for something else, a little more verve, more energy and personality and not so much cold touch of the ball.
De Jongthat tank forward who played for Sevilla and Barcelona, gets tired of missing goals, he hasn’t changed much from one time to the next. Due to the attacker’s errors, the game does not end early. Míchel looks for life with changes, but he doesn’t get it. He does not reach the opposing area and resists the oncoming avalanche as best he can.
Saibari scores the third in a disallowed action that portrays modern football. An involuntary stomp that the referee annuls, after visiting the VAR, in ballet mode. PSV rounded off the win with a goal from Bakayoko and a bad rebound from Krejcl.
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