The co-leader visits super co-leader Girona and bottom-bottom Almería. That was the prediction anyway. But since it turned out that this was not mathematics, but football, the super coach decided to take a blow (0-0) at the home of the super base. The team, which achieved 48 points and 15 wins in the first round, could not get three points in its visit to its opponent who has not won so far in the championship, and rose to the sixth place with only five draws against Girona.
And not only that, Almería also deserved the victory in the coups. If he did not achieve this, it was due to the shortcomings that caused him to have more than one leg in the Second League, although there was still a world to go by the end of the championship. “News to get a point”Girona coach Míchel said he was furious with his team’s performance. “A point that is not deserved but puts us in the lead should be seen as a positive. The problem is not that the team went down, but that we played a bad game at football level. Almería was better” A reading from a coach who shows once again that he has his feet on the ground and does not allow himself to be intoxicated by the glamor that surrounds his Girona .
The postponement of the matches of Real Madrid and the other three teams competing in the Super Cup will ensure that Girona remains at the top for another week. Also because it will allow Athletic They see themselves in third place in the table for at least a few days.
Berenguer double
The red-white team continued in a trance and on Saturday continued the series of perfect games and achieved results in the Basque derby of San Mamés (2-1), the most emotional duel of the season. Owner Berenguer for participation Inaki Williams He was the author of two goals scored by Athletic in the African Cup. real society That leaves us already nine points behind. The Basques now sit seventh, opening up a 10-point lead and making it clear that whether Spain have four or five tickets, they will be serious contenders to compete in the Champions League next year, which remains to be seen.
The situation is very different for the other two clubs, which are used to seeing themselves in the upper-middle part of the division. This is turning out to be a nightmare season for Villarreal and Sevilla – they each now have three coaches – and this weekend’s matchday has made their respective crises worse. Particularly painful was the 3-0 defeat of Villarreal at Las Palmas, which is, of course, another development. Sevilla, on the other hand, allowed Alavés to get their first away championship win (2-3) on Friday and remain just one point above the relegation zone. Granada, Cadiz and Almería.