Spain
La Liga
Friday 14th February 2025
Kick Off 21.00 Actual 21.01
Girona 1 Getafe C.F. 2, attendance 10,354
3’ 0-1
54’ 1-1
62’ 1-2
@ Estadi Montilivi
Avinguda de Montilivi 141
17003 Girona
€35 Admission, plus €2.50 booking fee, Print at Home Ticket
Programme available, free.
With flight prices being extortionate due to Valentines Day, it worked out far cheaper for us to travel out yesterday and stay in a hotel overnight, rather than come out today. We flew on Vueling Airlines 1455 flight from London Gatwick to Barcelona, which left 37 minutes late, before collecting our hire car and heading to our accommodation in nearby Castelldefels. This morning it was a 70 mile drive north east to Girona, which took around an hour and a quarter, leaving plenty of time to explore the town, before checking in at our hotel, which was only about 15 minutes walk from the Estadi Montilivi. The ground was opened in 1970 and has an all seated capacity of 14,624, made up of an original lower ring of seats and main stand, with three sides of temporary stands now added to give a second tier, following expansion work in 2017 and again in 2022, with the record attendance set in 2019, when a crowd of 14,158 were here for the visit of Real Madrid.
Girona had finished third in La Liga last season and headed the table at one point, eventually finishing fourteen points behind champions Real Madrid and four adrift of runners up Barcelona. It was good enough to get them into the group stages of this seasons Champions League, but having lost a few of their better players following that tremendous achievement, they have struggled this time round. Seven defeats from their eight games in the group stage saw them eliminated having finished fourth from bottom out of the 36 teams taking part. They came into tonight’s game 8th in the table, whilst Getafe were 14th. It wasn’t a great game from a neutral perspective. Far too much cheating and time wasting, with both teams equally as bad as each other and the constant rolling about feigning injury does get rather tiresome after the umpteenth time it occurs.
Getafe went ahead after just three minutes, courtesy of an easy finish into the far corner from just inside the 18 yard box. Girona levelled the scores nine minutes into the second half, when a corner on the left was headed down into the bottom corner of the net from six yards. It only took Getafe eight minutes to go back in front, when a long range shot was followed in from close range after an initial save by the ‘keeper. Any hopes of Girona getting back into it disappeared when they had a man sent off with seventeen minutes left, following a very quick review of the incident by the VAR team. Getafe thought they’d added a third goal just minutes later, but it was ruled out for an offside offence in the build up, but they easily hung on to the three points, which would certainly have made the trip seem worthwhile for the 6 fans in the away section of the ground.
