The old rule, before talking about today's game, let's go to the re-enactment of yesterday. Yesterday's focus on the analysis of Las Palmas home unbeaten game, Uncle Pi's team in the second half of the opening behind, equalised, although the subsequent offensive tide, but a little less luck, failed to take all three points, Osasuna in the absence of captain David Garcia, the back line was played by Las Palmas several times, it seems that in the offside this kind of overall defense that requires coordination, David Garcia's role is irreplaceable. Here are the highlights of the game, and if you are interested, you can take a look at the few behind-the-back goals that did not score, which were caused by Osasuna's offside mistakes.
There were two easter eggs yesterday, one is that we firmly believe that Inter can be trusted, although the news of Inter Milan's rotation before the game is flying all over the sky, but you must know that Inter Milan is playing with substitutes in the Champions League group stage, and rotation is the regular operation of Inzaghi Jr., and Inter Milan is the first to score from set-pieces in Serie A, and Lecce is the first to concede goals from set-pieces, which is called the style of play. In the game, De Vriray scored a goal for Inter from a corner, which was what we expected. There is also a game against Eintracht Frankfurt in Wolfsburg, and we recommend Wolfsburg to go unbeaten, and if it weren't for Eintracht Frankfurt's Armush equaliser in the last minute, Wolfsburg would have even been able to walk away from home with three points. To mention to you the possible pitfalls, Dort really lost, and Juventus narrowly defeated Frosinone 3:2 at the last moment, which is basically in place. The following is Inter's big win over Lecce**, interested friends can enjoy it.
Before I talk about today's game, I want to say a little more about yesterday's Carabao Cup final between Chelsea and Liverpool, and I'm going to call for ENDO crazy for this game!
70% of the earth is covered by water. the rest? covered by wataru endo.
There aren't many games today, so let's continue to talk about a La Liga game.
Girona: Rayo Vallecano
Rayo Vallecano has changed the coach, yes, it did, when did it change? Changed on February 14th. This change of coach is very weird, on February 1, Rayo Vallecano vs. Atletico Madrid, in the 90th minute, Depay received a pass from Griezmann and killed the lightning baby, Francisco fouled Griezmann on the bench ** Griezmann was fouled and was sent out of the game by the referee on duty Soto. In the next two games, the Baby Chargers lost at home to Sevilla and away to Mallorca, both of which Flores did not appear on the sidelines, and then after three days of playing in Mallorca, Flores and his team left Rayo Vallecano. The last round was the home debut of new coach Inigo Perez against his big brother Real Madrid, and I remember saying in that article that Real Madrid loved the lightning baby the most. Then it was tied 1:1. Therefore, today's away challenge to Girona is the first big test for Inigo Perez in the true sense.
Let's introduce the coach Inigo Pérez, who mainly mixed in the Basque Country when he was a player, produced by the Biba Academy, and Osasuna retired. When he was a player, he was a teammate of Biba, and the current Bournemouth manager Iraola, at that time Ilora was the main fullback, and Perez was a substitute midfielder, but you can't blame Perez for being too vegetable, you can only blame Biba for being too strong in midfield at that time, because the same position at that time was the famous Javi Martinez.
We searched for keywords in Spanish, and we found this picture, and the big guys are sure not to add a chicken leg to us? Hey, hey, hey. From left: Javi Martinez, Ilora and Inigo Pérez.
Judging from the news and information that can be found so far, Perez has not had his own coaching staff since he took office, he just signed Getafe's physical coach, former Shenhua's physical coach Oscar Garcia. And then there was no then, and now there are two veterans on the coaching staff, a goalkeeper coach and a match analyst. Francisco's entire team was fired, but what about the old ministry of the former Elora? After joining Bournemouth this season, Elora only took his former fitness coach de la Torre with him, while Perez was not called up by Iora to go to England with him. After Perez retired in 2022, he came directly to Rayo Vallecano as an assistant coach, probably because he was called by his eldest brother Iraira, but the eldest brother went to England but did not bring this little brother, it is worth chewing, is it not talented enough or do you want him to continue to train in La Liga? Now that Rayo Vallecano has abandoned Francisco's entire team in favor of Inigo Pérez, can it be understood that Rayo Vallecano is returning to the Ilora route?
After talking about Rayo Vallecano, let's talk about the situation in Girona, a few days ago I wrote an article about the game between Biba and Girona, I have a more detailed interpretation of Michel's tactics and Valverde's tactics, if you are interested, you can go back and see.
Let me directly say the conclusion, Rayo Vallecano does not have the ability to fight Girona's counterattack, which means that the weakness of Girona's defense is also the weakness of Rayo Vallecano's attack. On the contrary, Girona are more dangerous against Rayo Vallecano, the more they possess the ball.
You can take a closer look at the head-to-head record between Girona and Rayo Vallecano, in the 2020-2021 season, the promotion play-offs were defeated by Rayo Vallecano, unfortunately not promoted, this point needs to be added to the knowledge point, the city group acquired Girona in 2017, and immediately rushed to La Liga after 4 years of operation, so there is no deliberate pretending to be dead in the Championship and the German Second Division. After Michel's opening game, Girona's possession style of play gradually took shape, and since then they have been unbeaten against Rayo Vallecano, winning both games this season. In this game, we have a worry that Girona's coach Michel, as a Rayo Vallecano celebrity, will pull a hand when his old club is suffering, and now basically through the analysis of the past grievances between the two teams, it can be determined that Michel will not dare to let go of Rayo Vallecano at his home stadium at the critical juncture of the Champions League qualification.
Now back to the tactical level, since we have now deduced that Rayo Vallecano is back in the Ilora route, then we can analyze the record of Ilora and Michel, as you can see from the chart above, both league games were 2:2, let's mainly look at the meeting between Girona and Rayo Vallecano at home last season (2:2). The starting lineup is as follows:
As you can see from the picture above, several key players in the last season's confrontation with Girona were unable to play in this game for various reasons, but what about Girona? Girona's side is terrible, the main players are basically healthy, and they have strengthened Tsygankov, Dovbik, Savio and other strong reinforcements than last season. And the technical statistics of the two sides can also be seen, despite the score of 2:2, Girona's advantage on the field is self-evident.
To sum up, it is optimistic that Girona will win the game directly at home.