The afternoon was full of fear and complex when Stuani, who has the gift of ubiquity so that the ball came to where he was, won another piece of the statue that should be lifted at the day around Montilivi. There was the dark game for Girona that Míchel, just out of the hospital, looked at his captain and without saying anything he took him out to the field.
And the Uruguayan, obedient and accurate as usual, did not fail his coach. Nor to the club. Not even the city where they will soon raise this statue so that future generations understand what it was, is and will continue to be Stuani. Four goals of Girona; The four are yours. It has been he who has saved the team. Neither, no less.
But not that so much that he should be liberating and with tears almost in his eyes, he deprived him of suffering until the last moment against Valladolid, a team without present – it is already second – and who is not guessed either future. Stuani, the immortal Stuani, had made his job one more, but touched Gazzaniga also acts as a hero.
The Argentine goal will not have a stone monument, but it will remain, and forever, in the heart of Girona's fans by that stop – his body was inside the goal, but his hands were left out – he signed before Mario Martín's header. It was a goal – or that believed the Pucelano team – until the hands, infinite hands of 'Gazza' fly over the lime line to avoid a draw that would have been devastating.
Girona began badly, with A pair of irresponsible asprilla losses that deranged Míchel in his return to the bench After being hospitalized for three days, suffering “a deep vein thrombosis” in his left leg. Little by little he changed that gloomy landscape thanks especially to Tsygankov, which dusted the version of last season.
Asprilla, the Girona striker, starts an attack play against Chuki, the Valladolid player, in the new Zorrilla. / EFE / R. GARCÍA
He had the Ukrainian more persistence in attack understanding himself well with Portu since Stuani, with a blow suffered against Villarreal kept a turn on the bench, also leaving two excellent shots. Both repelled by Hein, the Estonian meta of Valladolid.
They were two great stops of Hein. The first stretching with beauty to his right and in full aerial flight. The second lengthening his body to the left and sliding on the grass of the new Zorrilla with huge success. Identical good performance had previously exhibited his colleague Gazzaniga keeping the goal to zero braking Chuky's shot after that poor start of Girona.
Goal canceled to Portu
Without Krejci and Sin Yangel Herrera, both sanctioned, and without Miguel, injured, Michel had to reorganize his defense with Arnaui, Juanpe, David López and Blind, struggled to the left flank to act as a left -handed side. Girona had its moment, spoiled by the dyan of Tsygankov, But without adequate aim, in addition to the goal annulled to Portu on the off prior.
Blind, the defense of Girona, tries to avoid the presence of Mario Martín, the Valladolid player, during the game in the new Zorrilla. / EFE / R. GARCÍA
After the first half, nothing had moved on the scoreboard. Everything was the same as at the beginning. And the “necessity”, as Míchel claimed to his players, Del Girona did not exceed a eradicted Valladolid, who played without any pressure because he knows that he will live next season in Second Division.
Asprilla does not atina
Injured Arnau entered French in the second half that started with a very clear occasion for Asprilla. One of those that do not admit any failure. No discussion. Hein stopped, as Tsygankov did it two times, but the young Colombian striker defined badly. The lights went out at the most inopportune moment for anger, again, of Míchel.
Asprilla, the Girona striker laments a failed occasion in the first part against Valladolid. / EFE / R. GARCÍA
There are opportunities that do not admit any mistake. They are so clear that it is only understood if it ends in goal. It's goal or goal. But with Asprilla, the most expensive signing in the history of Girona, none of that happened when his teammates most needed. And his fans. That spurred Valladolid, who found the most appropriate player to punish another loss, in this case of David López, who almost cost him terrible pain. Almost insurmountable.
In nobody's land
But his furious shot first ran into the hands of Gazzaniga, who did not bend his knees keeping standing to spit the ball to the crossbar, a prologue of a French penalty that only the collegiate saw, whom he disallowed, as is logical, the var. The scare, however, has already been installed, and forever, in the body of Girona. In the body and in mind.
There was then the party in anyone's land when coaches began to intervene. He withdrew Míchel to a tired Port and faced the last 20 minutes with Stuani, whom he protected until he turned to him when he needed him most, and Danjuma. They left Abel Ruiz, the 'nine' that did not throw even once on the door, And Asprilla, the young man who has the point of view and more deviant.
Portu and Abel Ruiz, the strikers of Girona, lament a failed occasion against Valladolid in the new Zorrilla. / EFE / R. GARCÍA
The Valladolid lived so comfortable that he was only afraid with that occasion wasted by the young Colombian as soon as he started the second half. Then, nothing at all. In that territory so inhospitable, with a 0-0 and the abyss under its feet, the ball was an object not loved. I burned for everyone. Even for the most veterans, aware that a sliding minímo could lead you to the deepest darkness. Hence the ball, fearful and cowardly, travel through sterile places, without danger, unable like the Girona to look at the Hein area.
Until Tsygankov invented a distant missing launch for a lot of events prior to Stuani's decisive goal. First, the Ukrainian; Then, Arthur. Both crashed into the defense of Valladolid until the ball fell on the feet of David López, central converted in front. He was calm and patience when others would have entered Vertigo and delicately attended Stuani – who does not! – to go one more game, one more year, his old and unavoidable appointment with the goal.
It was the first ball that played. I didn't need anymore either. A shot, a goal and almost insured salvation.
