Girona draws in extremis against Real Zaragoza but continues to decline

Girona and Real Zaragoza tied 1-1 in Montilivi in a duel in which JIM’s men struck first with so much Will give, but in which Stuani, with three minutes remaining, he put the equalizer in a denouement that does not serve either one or the other. The Catalans are still in relegation places and the Aragonese add their eighth consecutive draw in LaLiga SmartBank.

Both teams played in Montilivi a key duel, needed to score to get out of the dangerous area of ​​the table. Despite being two teams that added only 11 points, the first half left details, quality minutes and chances to have opened the scoring either of the two teams, but the lack of success did not allow it.

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Girona started better, Samu Saiz and Alex Baena They found spaces between the lines, but Real Zaragoza quickly detected the danger and balanced their scheme to prevent the most unbalancing players from the premises from participating. Precisely in one of these actions in which the two midfielders got together, the clearest opportunity of the first half came for the Girona people. Arnau recovered in the spinal cord, Samu assisted Baena who, after a twenty-meter run, crossed to the far post in search of Nahuel, but the Argentine, who had already had a goal disallowed for offside, could not connect with the ball due to few centimeters.

Given this, Real Zaragoza took wings and took a step forward. The visitors were able to advance on a header from Adrián to the center of Gámez that went narrowly to the right of Juan Carlos.

Before coming to rest the WHERE annulled somewhat to Girona by the hands of Aleix García. The Girona regained the ground lost after the break and was able to go ahead with a set piece. Juanpe headed up a corner kick thrown by Aleix himself. The blow came when the locals least expected it, who saw how the newly entered Vada took advantage of a great individual action from Fran Gamez to, with a dry kick, surpass Juan Carlos. Míchel changed the system and ended up putting all the gunpowder on the grass and this was rewarded.

All seemed lost, but an excellent play by Alex Baena ended up in the center of Darío at the head of Stuani, who did not forgive and equalized the score.

Girona: Juan Carlos; Well, Bernardo (Ureña, min.72), Juanpe; Arnau Martínez, Aleix García, Jairo (Pablo Moreno, min.82), Álex Baena, Borja García (Darío Sarmiento, min.72); Samu Saiz; and Nahuel Bustos (Stuani, min.64)

Real Zaragoza: Cristhian Álvarez; Francisco Gámez, Lluis López, Jair Amador, Pep Chavarría; Petrovic, Serrano, Adrián (Vada, min.67) (Borja Sainz, min.88); Sergio Bermejo (Zapater, min, 88), Nano Mesa (Igwekeme, min.78); and Ivan Azón (Álvaro Jiménez, min.67)

Goals: 0-1, min.71: Vada, 1-1, min.87: Stuani

Referee: González Francés (Canary Committee.). He admonished the locals Arnau Martínez (90 ‘), Cristhian Stuani (90’), Àlex Baena (90 ‘) and the visitors Lluis López (54’), Fran Gámez (89 ‘)

Incidents: Match corresponding to the twelfth day of the Smartbank League before 5,162 spectators.

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