The dream continues. The party do not stop. Unlocking new stadiums at every step, like the Nuevo Mirandilla. Challenge after challenge, football smiles on Girona wherever it goes. In the Cadiz bay he added three new points and his seventh victory in nine games. There it is nothing. But the match was not a military parade, but rather an interwar drama. Míchel's team played more than 90 minutes with one more, due to the expulsion of Darwin Machís, and yet they failed to win with authority. A goal from Aleix García in the second half decided the duel. But until the end the locals discussed the victory of the revelation of the championship. And so, suffering, he also knows how to win very well.
The game was stuck in the trenches during the first half. The areas barely existed and interruptions were a constant. It was impossible for Girona to practice the happy football that has led them to where they are due to the unfortunate task of Cádiz, forced to smudge the game board to obtain something positive. After the first skirmishes, the first action arrived that decided the duel. Machís went too far in a tackle on Yangel Herrera with his studs first and the referee had no doubts and sent him to the shower. The VAR did hesitate, creating some excitement about the action and then doing nothing.
With one more man, Girona sharpened its dominance and became owner of the ball, not the game. Winning at Nuevo Mirandilla this season is not an easy task even in superiority. Sergio González ordered a line of five defenders at the front of the area with three men in front against whom Girona crashed again and again. There was no way to penetrate inside, and outside they rarely generated superiority. Cádiz's work was having an effect and at half-time, after ten minutes of added time, Girona had not shot between the three sticks.
The beginning of the second offered a different dynamic. Girona found a little more clarity thanks to the appearances of Savinho on the left and Dovyk, surrounded by a multitude of rivals all afternoon. A combination between the two meant the visiting team's first shot on goal, which Ledesma deflected into a corner.
Míchel's team tilted the field until the siege was total. And with Cádiz under siege, Aleix García unleashed a shot from the front that beat an opponent with great effect and hit the left post of the Cádiz goal. Cádiz reacted in a final that seemed very long for Míchel and his team, but with the work overalls this Girona also showed patience, which does not come down from the cloud in which it lives.
0 - Cádiz: Ledesma, Carcelén (Pires, m.66), Meré (Negredo, m.78), Fali, Javi Hernández, Alcaraz, Escalante (Kouame, m.66), Alejo, Machís, Ramos (Sobrino, m. 78) and Maxi Gómez (Guardiola, m.72.
1 - Girona: Gazzaniga, Eric García, David López, Blind, Miguel (Pablo Torre, m.61), Aleix García, Herrera (Kebe, m.87), Yan Couto, Martín (Juampe, m.87), Savio ( Valery, d.71) and Dovbyk (Stuani, d.71).
Referee: Martínez Munuera (Valencian committee). The local Machís was sent off for a harsh tackle on Herrera (m.9). He cautioned Alcaraz, Aleix García, and Herrera with yellow cards.
Goals: 0-1, M. 58: Aleix García.
Incidents: Matchday 9 of the First Division, played at the Nuevo Mirandilla stadium in front of 16,438 spectators.
