Girona – Real Madrid Prediction & Picks (26.08.2018)

Although Girona comes from a magnificent season in which the base to tie the permanence was the great defensive solidity of the team, especially at home.

But the change of coach is a radical change in the style of play. And he has replaced the conservative Pablo Machín the former member of the Dream Team Eusebio, whose teams propose a very offensive and risky approach, with most players occupying a rival field and the defense advanced permanently.

When one of Cruyff’s disciples, such as Eusebio, arrives at the bench of a team, and also to replace a coach who built the team from the back as was Machín, it usually takes players a while to take on the new defensive conceits.
Generally in these teams the numbers of goals conceded go up to the beginning. At least until the template is made with this way of defending by possession of the ball and through the advanced pressure that “patented” Cruyff in Barcelona in the late 80’s / early 90’s.

I also think that if the 1st season of Girona in 1st surprised many teams and coaches because they did not know this template too much, in its 2nd season in the category more than one coach will have “caught the trick” and will know better how to overcome the defensive framework of Girona.

Because in addition Girona is one of the teams that has given less if not the least of all, so with the same players from last season can be relatively “easy” for the coaches rivals raise the games before an 11 that It hardly has variations.

They receive a Real Madrid that although aesthetically played a mediocre game against Getafe and won 2-0 with the law of minimum effort, but even without Cristiano up and Kovacic in the middle is still a team with a top-down demolition (Bale, Benzema, Asensio, Modric, Isco, Kroos, Ramos, Borja Mayoral …)

In fact although he did not give these sensations from outside but before Getafe the Real threw up to 10 times to goal (5 between sticks), and 78.05% of possession of ball supposes the 3rd party with more possession of ball of the targets since 2009 .