A minute from the end came Eyong's goalwho had just out to the field. A goal that devastated Girona because he had reached the limit offering an excellent defensive staging. But everything was collapsed with the center of Pedraza, who had all the time in the world, nodded by Eyong, with all the calm since he could even have coffee in the area, because he slipped between the couple of plants of the team led by Salva Fúnez by the hospitalization of Míchel. That header frustrated the hope of Girona, punished, again, for another blow when he had everything in his hand.
That goal frustrated Girona, who still had a great occasion of Yangel Herrera in the added time, a header that came out licking the left post of the Villarreal. He lost in the last sigh and will not have on Tuesday or the Venezuelan. Nor to Krejci. There was the game, and the point that he practically assured him in his hands, when he granted an occasion that cost him defeat because the young Cameroon, 21, took advantage of such a gift.
Girona's fans exhibit a mood of mood to Míchel, which is hospitalized, in Montilivi during the match against Villarreal. / EFE / David Borrat
The game began badly (at 35 seconds, Krejci saw a yellow card) for Girona, but soon took over the ball. Míchel, from his bed at the hospital, where he has been admitted and observed since last Thursday, did not touch anything in the initial eleven. He maintained his commitment to the old guard: Stuani, Portu and nine more. That is, the same eleven with which he regained his life against Mallorca.
Monumental Gazzaniga
And it is not easy to remove the ball from Marcelino's Villarreal. There was the battle of the afternoon in Montilivi, with even on the bench and Álex Baena returning to the city where he was happy and acquired a name for the Spanish football elite. But arriving the first quarter of an hour is as if it were played without goals.
Girona or shot; The two auctions of the 'Yellow Submarine' did not find Gazzaniga's frame. Salva Fúnez, the second coach of the Catalan team, directed the team physically. But it was Míchel who from the hospital was in direct contact with Santi Pou, another of his assistants, to transmit all the information he saw on television.
Ayoze hits the ball with his left arm and the referee annuls Villarreal's goal to Girona in Montilivi. / EFE / David Borrat
The game was opting for Marcelino's group until mediated the first part was lived a double monumental stop of Gazzaniga. The first, with the face; The second, with the left arm. And there were two shooting shots of Ayoze, located inside the small area of Girona.
As Villarreal striker could not in any way ended up finishing the third and ended up in goal. But it was not worth it because Ayoze had done with his left arm, while Montilivi stood up to applaud the wonderful one, and repeated by two, action of the Argentine goal.
Girona had no depth, although during some phases of the first half I had control. It was an artificial control, without any danger because Portu's dynamism was not seen. Nor were there options for Stuani to have the possibility of hunting a ball. Given that scenario, Marcelino has already ordered Parejo 10 minutes from the first part. And that Pepe invented a phenomenal shot that became the second great occasion of Villarreal. Del Girona? None.
Changes without performance
The Asturian coach did not take long to intervene. He also had a yellow card, a perfect alibi for Parejo to enter to sink the opponent in his area, bringing him closer and more dangerously, to the home of Gazzaniga. But the meeting was not as fluid as at the beginning both teams entering an exchange, product of many losses.
Although Girona exhibited, yes, an excellent defensive attitude, which caused certain moments of despair in Villarreal. It was not the game they imagined, although Álex Baena tried to wake him up with a Zapatazo from outside the area that ran into the strong hands of Gazzaniga.
Salva Fúnez, who served as the first coach of Girona for the hospitalization of Míchel, instructed his players in Montilivi. / EFE / David Borrat
Then, Míchel ordered from the hospital to stir his team with the appearance, once an hour of play, from Asprilla. And Marcelino, his colleague, replied with a front change: Gerard Moreno for Yeremy Pino. Nothing transcendent occurred on the grass, no matter how much the technicians did not stop intervening with a double substitution for each team. Seeing that Álex Baena was lying on the left flank, French entered, Arnau forming a double side society. And in Villarreal there were new sides.
And, in the end, Pedraza, one of those new sides, focused precisely to recover the curse of the final minutes of Girona. It happened to him in Leganés. It was repeated in Montilivi. Eyong came out with his approaching, and even more, to Villarreal to the Champions League.
