📝 Match report

Girona and Mallorca drew 0-0 in a match where the Catalan side were superior and created the best chances, including a Abel Ruiz shot that crashed against the crossbar, but ran into an inspired Arnau Tenas who kept Mallorca afloat in defence. Two newly-relegated sides who arrived at this matchday 8 encounter with completely legitimate hopes of getting into the fight for direct promotion, but left Montilivi with the bitter taste of a wasted opportunity to close in on the top spots in LaLiga Hypermotion. Girona had clear control of the game for all ninety minutes: they handled the ball better, created far more attacking danger and fashioned clear-cut goalscoring chances that an absolutely inspired Tenas took it upon himself to neutralize with decisive interventions, especially in the closing stages when the Girona side ramped up the pressure desperately hunting for a goal. Mallorca, for their part, went about their business suffering with defensive discipline, accepted without question the tactical inferiority and ended up chasing what others might have stumbled into with a bit of luck: a consolation point that salvaged something from the match. Both sides finished on 14 points, six adrift of second place, which means this draw also keeps them away from that direct promotion they'd dreamed of. There are matches that perfectly sum up that old chestnut about not winning with the better second half: Girona lived it in all its glory, and Mallorca made the most of it to escape a hammering. Anyway, one of those goalless draws that nobody wanted but everyone walks away from with the feeling that something slipped through their fingers by a whisker, just a whisker.

By Elopi23

Result

Girona FC and RCD Mallorca have already met on matchday 8. The score is above; the report and full stats will be expanded.