An unknown Girona remained on the shore. On the coast, he was upset to have had a terrible game in Mallorca that prevented him from reaching the semi-finals. Copa del Rey. An accursed border because Míchel’s team suffered injuries in a terrible first half, leaving them on that shore so hard to reach.
Even against 10, he did not have the football and calmness required to break this obstacle, which was now insurmountable. It was a sterile and insignificant team, as if they did not understand the historical dimension of the event. Accustomed to drawing pages for memory, he wrote a doodle on the islands.Late goals from Stuani and Savinho were not resolved. Late and bad like Girona.
3-0 in the 34th minute
Worst match. And the worst opening half hour for Girona in these six adventurous months. And at the worst moment because he came to Mallorca and did not show up. He forgot the start time of the match. Even the first two warnings from Aguirre’s team were not a wake-up call for the sleepy and uninformed Gironí team. It wasn’t on the grass.
By the time he realized it around the 34th minute, he was losing 3-0 in unprecedented fashion.. Unbeknownst to Míchel, who is enraged by his team’s worrying play. He was so angry that in the 22nd minute, with the score at 2-0, Pablo Torre ordered Portu and Yan Couto to warm up.
Girona’s defensive structure consisting of Arnau, Antal, Blind and Miguel was immediately laid bare. This was not just the responsibility of the back four, but also of a team that did not have the control of the game as they should have. Nor was there the intensity that merited a place in the Copa del Rey semi-finals, a limit that has never been surpassed before.
Chaotic first half
As the chaotic first half came to an end, it was Copaero goalkeeper Juan Carlos who had the best of him; He was conceded three goals and had made two very good saves beforehand. Only Larin leads 1-0 after Girona’s terrible collective action. Soft in Blind’s attack before Abdón’s impressive strike to make it 2-0. And rookie Antal made the mistake of kicking the offside ball badly on the penalty spot to complete the score 3-0 set by Abdón.
Mallorca coach Aguirre devised an excellent match plan, in which Girona was complicit. Complicity and indifference. He committed only one foul in 45 minutes. And what unnerved Míchel was Antal’s hand detected by VAR, evidence of the no-show.
The Vallecas coach’s anger decided the couple at half-time: Dovbyk by Yangel Herrera, your first half sucks playing with two nines. AND Yan Couto from Arnau. However, the second half started with another clear chance for Mallorca as Larin outran Antal before firing a dangerous shot.
not against 10
But the impact of 3-0 was devastating. Both emotionally and in football terms, because Abdón and Larin, two attackers of the Balearic team, organized a party in Son Moix. A party with even fireworks. And the Mallorcan’s last night was consumed without football or hope A dejected Girona until Stuani caused a penalty, which had its reward: two yellow cards for Raíllo. Two yellow cards and sending off.
The match suddenly took on a completely different landscape; It was 3-1 and Girona were playing against 10. In this situation, despite the pain of being eliminated from the Cup in the first half hour, they only had to appeal to their patience and, above all, the essence of their football.
He was impatient because this essence was not seen in Mallorca; Aguirre was used to dealing with dry and unpleasant matches that left Dovbyk in the shadows, negating even the magic of Savinho. The Brazilian started on the left wing and moved to the right in the second half. But there was no sign of his venomous dribbling or precision centering until Savinho emerged in added time to hold out hope when the stopwatch almost pointed the way to the dressing room.