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Vinicius put Real Madrid ahead with a goal in the fifth minute from outside the area.
Real Madrid and Girona are playing the most important league match of the day, with the lead at stake.
The whites occupy first position in the standings with 58 points, compared to 56 for the Catalan team.
Girona goes to the Santiago Bernabéu with the hope and the possibility of taking the lead in LaLiga from Real Madrid, already past the halfway point of the tournament.
A revelation team that with the passing of the games has shown that it exudes great football, now faces the challenge of overcoming a Madrid that is in a box in defense, since this Saturday morning it was learned that Rüdiger is not ready.
His absence, together with that of the other three center backs that Ancelotti had at the beginning of the season (Militão, Nacho and Alaba), means that the Italian coach has to turn to Carvajal and Tchouameni for the axis of the defense.
Girona, for its part, which will not be able to count on the suspended Yangel Herrera and Blind, is paying attention to the evolution of Dovbyk, who has not trained during the week but does not want to miss the duel at the top of the table.
The one who will not do it for sure is Vinicius, already recovered from his third injury of the season.
RMReal Madrid
1
Andriy Lunin, Ferland Mendy, Aurelien Tchouameni, Dani Carvajal, Lucas Vázquez, Federico Valverde, Jude Bellingham, Camavinga, Kroos, Vinicius Junior and Rodrygo
GIR Girona
0
Gazzaniga, Miguel Gutierrez, Eric Garcia, Juanpe, Yan Couto, Portu, Iván Martín, Sávio, Tsygankov, Aleix García and Dovbyk
Goals
1-0 min.
5: Vinicius Junior.
Referee
Juan Martínez Munuera
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A little bit of Madrid is a lot
Try to replicate Dovbyk in a counter.
But the forward,
Pichichi
of the League with 14 goals like Bellingham and Mayoral, gets tangled when it comes to executing the shot.
When he does so, the tangle of legs of the rivals avoid him.
Madrid has already clarified that a little goes a long way.
And he doesn't mind taking shelter in his field because his cons are blows.
It is difficult, in any case, for them to be as beautifully crafted as Vinicius' goal.
ACT.10 FEB 2024 - 18:44
GOOOOOOOOOOOOL FROM VINICIUS!
Madrid is boldly looking for Bellingham to plan the attacks.
The Englishman orders the team with his passes and I find the gaps.
None like the one Vinicius generates between the lines.
In one of those, he receives, turns, draws a small diagonal, raises his head and arms his leg to deliver a whip to the long stick that makes Gazzanigga's stretch useless.
ACT.10 FEB 2024 - 18:45
The ball, from Girona
Girona expresses from the beginning that its proposal will not change, that its football involves playing the ball from the roots.
He does so and reaches the vicinity of Lunin.
For the moment, the ball belongs to Girona because Madrid, for the moment, is waiting a little behind, perhaps trying not to leave any gaps behind them.
Savinho on the left and Couto on the right also clarify that football is about breaking, and also about centering.
Girona's monologue, in any case, does not help him to signify himself close to Lunin.
And Madrid knows that a stolen ball means a counter-attack.
ACT.10 FEB 2024 - 18:38
The match begins!
After the photos, shaking hands and the last huddles, also a minute of silence in memory of former white goalkeeper Miguel Ángel,
El Gato
, the referee signals the start of the match between Madrid and Girona (three minutes late) .
Let's go there!
ACT.10 FEB 2024 - 18:33
EA Sports League
Between Kiricocho and Savinho, Quique Cárcel's Girona
Juan I. Irigoyen
Kiricocho.
Sign of the Cross.
And other superstitions.
But by miracle in Girona, nothing.
Nothing at all.
If not, ask Quique Cárcel, the silent football engineer of the sensation team in Spain.
In the Girona box, no one is surprised that Quique Cárcel, their sports director, lets out “Kiricocho” [word used to jinx rivals] before a penalty is awarded.
It is also not surprising if Cárcel crosses himself before every corner or dangerous direct foul from the opposition, much less when he repeats costumes or rituals after a victory.
However, the word miracle seems prohibited in Girona.
“I assure you that what happens here is not luck,” emphasizes David López, one of the reference players of the second-placed team in the League, the thirteenth who spends the most money on the squad (52 million).
And the rational explanation for the Girona phenomenon has a name: “Quique,” insists David López.
“He has found a coach according to his idea of the game and his work methodology.
That added to a group of young players with a lot of quality, plus those with more experience linked to the club, has generated a cocktail that explains what we are experiencing.”
ACT.10 FEB 2024 - 18:24
THE LEAGUE
Real Madrid and Girona compete in La Liga with the goal as their flag
Jorge Marzo Arauzo
Bellingham and Dobvyk.
But also Stuani, Rodrygo or Joselu.
This season witnesses their names again and again.
They are the top scorers of the two teams that, in principle, are fighting to win La Liga this season.
On the one hand, Real Madrid.
The whites are experiencing a sweet time in the league competition, with only one defeat compared to four draws and a creditable 18 wins from 23 games played.
ACT.10 FEB 2024 - 18:19
Delfí Geli, president of Girona
.- “Proud and happy with the excellent performance of the team and the work of the coaching staff.
Our thoughts were not to fight face to face with the greatest in LaLiga.
We have to enjoy it.”
.- “It is a shame that Míchel is not on the pitch.”
.- “The canvas is an excellent success for our sponsor.
We are proud to show off our colors in Spain.
It is a successful campaign because everyone is talking about it.”
.- “On the Super League our position is clear.
It is surprising that the Government is not with the majority of the clubs...If we could not fight to be in the largest European competition, perhaps this match would have no meaning."
ACT.10 FEB 2024 - 18:18
THE EA SPORTS LEAGUE
Only the Bernabéu remains
Ramon Besa
Girona arrives at the Bernabéu after traveling through the League with the feeling that each game is a unique opportunity to make history since they won at Villarreal on September 27.
That day he became the 41st leader of the tournament after four days earlier he had provisionally reached the lead against Mallorca.
Even Míchel, the coach, announced: “We will take a screenshot of the classification on the mobile” to attest to a unique moment in the life of a club that in 2007 was fighting to avoid bankruptcy in Second B.
ACT.10 FEB 2024 - 18:18
REAL MADRID
Tchouameni, Ancelotti's last seducer: extra hours with Davide and virtual reality
David Alvarez
Carlo Ancelotti confided his pre-match speech to Aurélien Tchouameni for the first time on January 10 in Riyadh.
Minutes before the semi-final of the Spanish Super Cup against Atlético de Madrid, the Frenchman grabbed a plastic bottle with an orange liquid and addressed his teammates in Spanish in the locker room of the Al Nassr stadium: “We know it's a game very important for us, for the fans.
We have to give everything and fight until the end to win this title, with commitment.
And in the end we are going to win because Real Madrid is here.
Good game everyone, and I don't know what else I can say... Let's go! ", he is seen saying in a documentary prepared by the club.
ACT.10 FEB 2024 - 18:14
THE LEAGUE
Girona fever threatens the Bernabéu
Irene Guevara
Girona's success goes beyond sports.
Sold out in Montilivi, processions for the sought-after red and white shirts and international interest in a club with a 55 million budget.
The Girona brand has had a strong impact on the city of 105,000 inhabitants and its surroundings: the local Chamber of Commerce estimates the economic footprint – direct and indirect – of the promotions of football, but also basketball, at 40 million.
A figure that, from this organization, they assure will grow, and that far exceeds the 22.5 million impact in 2018 after participation in the highest category of professional football.
“It is an incalculable value,” explains the president of the Chamber, Jaume Fàbrega.
This season, in the middle of the fight for the leadership of the League with Real Madrid, Girona has 9,700 subscribers and about 13,000 members.
ACT.10 FEB 2024 - 18:11
Míchel: "We face a rival who has subdued all rivals"
.- "We are with the same uncertainty as always, about the game, the result, the performance... But we are fine, with positive energy."
.- "Dovbik arrives well. We believe he is fit. But we will see"
.- "I would have liked to be on the pitch. As a coach, not being on the bench, not being able to do anything, not being able to transmit... It makes me very angry. But I accept the sanction and trust in the coaching staff and the player who are the protagonists".
.- "We are going to try to be ourselves. But we have a rival that has subdued all the teams. It is clear that there will be moments of suffering. And all the situations they have had with casualties have been resolved well, so we do not "It is upsetting that Rüdiger is not there. I expect a very strong and powerful Madrid."
ACT.10 FEB 2024 - 18:10
And Ancelotti's team
ACT.10 FEB 2024 - 18:00
This is Girona's eleven
ACT.10 FEB 2024 - 17:59
REAL MADRID
Real Madrid loses Antonio Rüdiger for two weeks and is left without pure central defenders against Girona
The country
The bad news happens in the center of Madrid's defense.
The club announced this Saturday, five hours before facing Girona (6:30 p.m., DAZN), that Antonio Rüdiger suffers a muscle injury to the vastus lateralis of his left thigh.
The first medical estimates point to a loss of about two weeks, which would leave him out, in addition to the key league clash this weekend, the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 next Tuesday in Leipzig and Sunday's visit to Vallecas.
On February 25, the white team hosts Sevilla, an event for which, if the forecasts are met, the German could be available.
ACT.10 FEB 2024 - 17:56
The host has also already arrived at the Santiago Bernabéu.
Despite the losses in defense, Ancelotti will be able to count on Vinicius, who returns to the starting eleven this afternoon after his loss in the Madrid derby the previous day.
ACT.10 FEB 2024 - 17:50
Girona, revelation team
When the season began, Girona aspired to avoid relegation.
That was Míchel's speech for many months.
The passage of time and games, also good results and a more than dapper game, have led the coach to change his third, since he is already talking about Europe.
If you beat Madrid at the Bernabéu and take the lead after the halfway point of the season, would he already be talking about the league title?
ACT.10 FEB 2024 - 17:45
Madrid's defense, in box
Real Madrid arrives at the clash in a draw, as it does not have any of the four centre-backs with which it made up the squad at the beginning of the season.
Thus, Militão, Alaba, Nacho and Rüdiger, whose relapse was announced this morning, remain injured.
Coach Ancelotti has no choice but to use his ingenuity and place Tchouameni and Carvajal.
ACT.10 FEB 2024 - 17:37
Hello everyone!
A pleasure to be with you to comment live on the Santiago Bernabéu match between Real Madrid and Girona, a duel at the top of the table that, if the Catalan team wins, would entail a change in leadership.
Let's go there!
ACT.10 FEB 2024 - 17:33
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