Datasheet:
3 – Girona FC: Gazzaniga; Yan Couto, Eric, David López (Juanpe min. 70), Miguel; Aleix García, Herrera (Jhon Solís, min. 89); Tsygankov (Pablo Torre, min. 89), Portu (Iván Martín, min. 73), Sávio; and Dovbyk (Stuani, min. 73).
0 – Rayo Vallecano: Dimitrievsky; Balliu, Lejeune, Aridane, Espino; Crespo (Trejo, min. 79), Óscar Valentín (Pathé Ciss, min. 59); De Frutos (Pep Chavarría, min. 64), Unai López (Kike, min. 64), Álvaro; and RDT (Camel, min. 59).
Goals: 1-0, min. 52: Tsygankov. 2-0, min. 90+1: Sávio. 3-0, min. 90+5: Sávio.
Referee: From Burgos Bengoetxea (Basque committee). He admonished the locals Aleix García (min. 55), Yan Couto (min. 85) and Sávio (min. 90+1) and the visitors Pathé Ciss (min. 65), Crespo (min. 73) and Kike (min. 81). He sent off Pep Chavarría for a double warning (min. 75 and min. 76).
Incidences: Match of the 26th day of LaLiga EA Sports played at the Estadi Municipal de Montilivi in front of 8,923 fans. Before the start of the match, a minute of silence was observed in memory of those who died in last week’s fire in Valencia.
Passed through water the duel began in Montiliviin which the Girona needed the victory to maintain second position in the Liga and the Ray He was looking for the second victory so far this year. Viktor Tsygankov and Savinho They decided the game after the break, when Girona revolutionized the match after a first half without good circulation or success.
Èric García assumed the functions of generator from the base, in the absence of Daley Blindon the same side as Yan Couto, back after the sanction for accumulation of yellows. That situation was taken advantage of in the first minutes, without success, by Rayo, who did not give up their efforts to attack with the field inclined towards his left wing.
The team led by Michel He did not find fluidity in his game during the first half hour and when he arrived he was not precise in small spaces. The exception was a drive by Èric García that left Dovbyk but the forward added the second offside for his team.
The same protagonists served a play in which Montilivi lukewarmly claimed a penalty for handball, in one of the few dangerous actions by his team. A team with the ball but sterile in terms of generation of occasions of clear danger.
Rayo disappeared due to the pure crushing of Girona and was Portu who shook up the Rayista defense to leave a frank shot on a plate to Yangel Herrera which Aridane ended up clearing, in the clearest of the first half.
After the break, Girona put one more gear and Port took advantage of a burst of Couto for his band, leaving only Dovbyk. but the Ukrainian striker wanted to control instead of finishing first, in what could have been 1-0. Just after, Miguel Gutierrezin the side’s first internment in the entire game and a pass from David López, assisted Viktor Tsygankov who, with a great low shot at the far post, put the home team ahead in a brilliant start to the second half.
Dovbyk continued to be imprecise with a free shot that he sent high, after a great action by the scorer, while the Rayo continued to shipwreck in the Gironi deluge, in the game and in the weather. Rayo’s first line of pressure was not effective and the second in the League did not hesitate to take advantage of the spaces, in the return of vertigo to their offensive actions.
Girona’s chances continued in search of victory, after two defeats and a draw in their last three games, with actions behind the Rayista defense, unable to control the constant flights of Savinho and Tsygankov.
Pep Chavarriaafter ten minutes on the field and having just been cautioned, went to the collision against Èric García with his hands at the level of the centre-back’s face and saw the second yellowleaving your team with ten and fifteen minutes left in search of the impossible.
More after the hunger of Christian Stuaniin search of the sentence after replacing Dovbyk, who found in his header, from the small area, a enorme Dimitrievski that kept Rayo alive, a little.
The set of Inigo Perez re-emerged in the last minutes and Míchel once again showed nervous expressions, seeing that his team was not able to extend the lead on the scoreboard, just when Rayo put the nine field players in the rival fifty meters.
The Vallecano coach breathed with the sentence of Savinho, who received on the right wing and headed towards the area, with the goal between his eyebrows, as he was licking, before launching a low shot into the stump of the post. Not content with this, the winger scored his double, in the 95th minute, making ‘Pacha’ Espino bite the dust and beating Dimitrievski low to return Girona to second place in the standings, ten points above Athletic Club, in the Europa League. He Ray He left Montilivi without scoring and continues, like this, seven points above the relegation places.