Girona are top of the table in LaLiga after the first 16 days of the league, which is hardly surprising despite no club being able to break LaLiga’s hegemony. Real Madrid, FC Barcelona and Atletico Since Sevilla did this Juande Ramos, Kanouté, Luis Fabiano and Dani Alves In the 2006-07 season.
Girona scores 2.37 goals per match In this first long third of the competition (he has 38 points), he has four points in this Sunday’s visit to FC Barcelona, more than anyone since 2019-20; a feat only discovered by Barcelona. Betis In the last 19 years of competition from 2018-19. That’s not the most surprising part of what Michel’s team did.
What is truly shocking and adds to this unexpected ‘Gironí’ success is the number that appears in the score box. Add girona 41 points after 16 LaLiga matchesAfter 13 wins, two draws (Athletic and Real Sociedad) and one loss (Real Madrid). On average each game gets 2.56 points, which is an absolute disgrace.
The third best leader of the 10 years
In fact and here is the truly surprising fact that Girona third best leader League in the last 10 seasons. Only Barcelona from 2017-18 and Real Madrid from 2014-15 have reached this page of the calendar with a better record. And the Catalan side currently have another 42 points, which makes them seven points clear of current leaders Barca from the 2018-19 season.
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The rule of three says if you can keep up with the tempo, Girona will be LaLiga champions with 97 points in May (97.375, to be exact). If it had succeeded, it would have been something logically close to utopia; Michel’s team would be: The fourth best champion in history From the Spanish First League. Only twice did Barça (100 in 2012-13 and 99 in 2009-10) and Real Madrid once (100 in 2011-12) manage to surpass these 97 points at the end of the season.
These data serve to verify that: Girona is not an accidental leaderHe took advantage of the weak performance of the big 3 teams in the competition. In fact, Real Madrid, with 39 points, would lead the tournament after matchday 16 in six of the last 10 editions of the championship. But this year it’s not working for him.
Michel’s review
“I don’t know if we can To last up to Barça’s level real Madrid and Athletic Throughout the whole season, but I am very happy with the performance of the team, these players are really making history,” expressed Míchel after visiting FC Barcelona on Sunday and securing the first victory in the club’s history.
Alavés and Atlético at home and Betis away are the three obstacles that separate Girona from finishing as the leader in the first round. Last team left apart from Barça, Madrid and Atletico ‘winter champion’ It was Valencia in the 2003-04 season… and they eventually lifted the title.
Whether Girona achieves this or not, their season is already outstanding. So much so that they reached the required 40 points in 16 days. seal permanence. We should not forget that this is the main purpose of the course. He has more than half a season left to achieve this and now has the license to dream.