2023-12-18 22:32:38
12/19/2023-|Last update: 12/19/202301:49 AM (Mecca time)
Girona continued its adventure this season and returned to the top once more, following defeating its Alex Reed Alaves 3-0 at the end of the 17th stage of the Spanish Football League.
Girona won the first half following finishing ahead with two clean goals, scored by the brilliant Ukrainian newcomer Artem Dovpik (23) and the Spanish Porto (42).
The victory raised Girona’s tally to 44 points, regaining the lead by two points over its closest competitor, Real Madrid, and Alaves’ tally stopped at 16 points in 13th place.
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Girona confirmed its victory by adding the third goal in the second half from a penalty kick snatched by Cotto and executed by Dovpik in the middle of the goal (59), raising the team’s personal tally to 10 goals in La Liga this season.
With these goals, the 26-year-old Ukrainian contributed to making Girona the third best attacking team in the five major European leagues with 41 goals, behind Bayern Munich (47) and Bayer Leverkusen (42) of Germany, and ahead of Manchester City, the English and Champions League champions (40).
Coach Mitchell’s team hopes to end the year on top when it visits Real Betis on Thursday before welcoming the new year at home in a very difficult test once morest fourth-placed Atletico Madrid on January 3, 2024.
Girona is aiming to win the Spanish League title for the first time in its history, in its second consecutive season in the top flight, following also spending the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 seasons in the first division, before being relegated to the second division for 3 seasons.
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