Girona didn’t open Real’s “gift” and Bilbao got the ball!

In just her second defeat in this year’s La Liga, she obliged Girona the Athletic Bilbao!

His team Ernesto Valverde prevailed 3-2 in “San Mames” as part of the 25th matchday.

Thus, on the one hand, she did not allow her opponent to… open Real Madrid’s gift (1-1 with Rayo Vallecano), with the “Queen” being the only one who had beaten her so far in the League. As a result, Girona’s (2nd, 56b.) gap from the top has finally increased to six pointswith Carlo Ancelotti’s team being the absolute favorites for the title (at +8 from 3rd Barcelona).

On the other hand, the Basques (5th, 49b.) -noting the Their 7th home win in a rowsomething that had to happen from afar 1998– were kept at -3 from the top four and Atlético Madrid, with the battle for the Champions League continuing vigorously (the 5th place may also give a ticket, with Spain of course at the moment being 3rd in the relative standings for the two countries that will have five teams in the top flight next season).

At the same time, Bilbao reduced their gap to Girona to seven points, having also tied the points between them.

In the competitive part now, the home team entered the match with a goal from the… locker room. Specifically, Mr Berenger opened the scoring just at 88”after a nice feint and powerful finish from the height of the wide area.

Girona responded in the second half, also in its first minutes (49′), by Chigankov to score from close range. Despite this, their players were prone to mistakes, which the Basques took advantage of and even twice within five minutes, in the 56′ with his second goal Berenger and to 60′ by Iniaki Williams.

And yet, against the flow of the match and while Athletic were better, the visitors re-entered the game in 75′ through a static phase, thanks to its close head Garthia.

The home team got nervous in the final minutes, seeing Girona miss important chances. Most important of all, of course, is his 90’+5′with Vivian heading it away on the line Solis’ shot. Thus, 3-2 remained until the final.

The rating:

The 26th matchday:

Friday, 16/2

Villarreal-Getafe 1-1

(56′ Moreno-24′ Maksimovic)

Saturday, 17/2

Atlético-Las Palmas 5-0

(15′, 20′ Llorente, 47′, 62′ Correa, 87′ Depay)

Osasuna-Cádiz 2-0

(63′, 90’+1′ Budimir)

Celta-Barcelona 1-2

(47′ Aspas – 45’+1′, 90+8′ Pen. Lewandowski)

Valencia-Seville 0-0

Sunday, 18/2

Rayo Vallecano-Real Madrid 1-1

(27′ De Tomas – 3′ Joselu

Granada-Almeria 1-1

(75′ Ouzouni – 9′ Poubil)

Mallorca-Sociedad 1-2

(4′ Sanchez – 38′ Kubo, 90+3′ Merino)

Betis-Alavés 0-0

Monday, 19/2

Athletic Bilbao-Girona 3-2

(2′, 56′ Berenger, 60′ Inaki Williams – 49′ Chigankov, 75′ Garcia)

The next, 26th matchday:

Friday 23/2

Sociedad-Villarreal

Saturday 24/2



Granada-Valencia

Barcelona-Getafe

Alavés-Mallorca

Sunday 25/2



Cadiz-Delta

Betis-Athletic Bilbao

Las Palmas-Osasuna

Real Madrid-Seville

Monday 26/2



Girona-Rayo Vaguecano