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Espanyol vs Girona

Competition – Spanish Primera

Stadium – RCDE Stadium

Date: 11th December 2017

Kick-off time – 20:00 GMT

These sides are guilty of being inconsistent this season and although Espanyol will be favourites here due to home advantage, we can expect both sides to give a good account of themselves.

Girona seem to play better when they play teams that consider them underdogs and that could be the reason why they have taken four points from Barcelona and Atletico Madrid this season but lost to Alaves last time out.

For a side who has just been promoted to the La Liga, they play one of the most positive styles of football in the division.

Their wingbacks are very effective in terms of bombing forward and most of their goals this term has resulted from crosses from the wings.

However, they also seem to be generous defensively as they have kept a clean sheet in only 14% of their games this season, with 64% ending in both teams scoring.

Girona’s defence will be delighting Gerard Moreno at Espanyol after his good start to the season.

The attacker has scored 6 goals in all competition already this season and 2 in his last 3 games.

He is rarely out with injury as he has missed only one game since the start of last season which was due to suspension.

Espanyol has not hit the heights they reached last season but they have the quality to avoid relegation and Quiques Flores will be hoping his side can start winning games soon.

They have kept just one clean sheet in their last five games and Girona could take advantage of potential defensive lapse here.

This is the first top flight meeting between these two sides.

Results of each team’s last 5 matches across all leagues and competitions

Espanyol

LAST FIVE GAMES DATE COMPETITION
L Eibar 3-1 Espanyol 3 Dec, 2017 Spanish Primera División
W Espanyol 3-2 Tenerife 30 Nov, 2017 Spanish Copa del Rey
W Espanyol 1-0 Getafe 27 Nov, 2017 Spanish Primera División
L Espanyol 0-2 Valencia 19 Nov, 2017 Spanish Primera División
L Alavés 1-0 Espanyol 4 Nov, 2017 Spanish Primera División

Girona

LAST FIVE GAMES DATE COMPETITION
L Girona 2-3 Alavés 4 Dec, 2017 Spanish Primera División
D Levante 1-1 Girona 28 Nov, 2017 Spanish Copa del Rey
D Real Betis 2-2 Girona 25 Nov, 2017 Spanish Primera División
D Girona 1-1 Real Sociedad 17 Nov, 2017 Spanish Primera División
W Levante 1-2 Girona 5 Nov, 2017 Spanish Primera División

Other fixtures taking place this week in the Spanish Primera:

March 29, 2024
Cadiz 21:00 Granada
March 30, 2024
Getafe 14:00 Sevilla
Almeria 16:15 Osasuna
Valencia 18:30 Mallorca
Barcelona 21:00 Las Palmas
March 31, 2024
Celta Vigo 12:00 Rayo Vallecano
Girona 14:15 Real Betis
Alaves 16:30 Real Sociedad
Real Madrid 19:00 Athletic Bilbao
April 1, 2024
Villarreal 19:00 Atlético de Madrid
April 4, 2024
Granada 18:00 Valencia
April 12, 2024
Real Betis 19:00 Celta Vigo
April 13, 2024
Atlético de Madrid 12:00 Girona
Rayo Vallecano 14:15 Getafe
Mallorca 16:30 Real Madrid
Cadiz 19:00 Barcelona
April 14, 2024
Las Palmas 12:00 Sevilla
Granada 14:15 Alaves
Athletic Bilbao 16:30 Villarreal
Real Sociedad 19:00 Almeria

Spanish Primera Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Real Madrid 29 22 6 1 64 20 +44 72
2 Barcelona 29 19 7 3 60 34 +26 64
3 Girona 29 19 5 5 59 34 +25 62
4 Athletic Bilbao 29 16 8 5 50 26 +24 56
5 Atlético de Madrid 29 17 4 8 54 34 +20 55
6 Real Sociedad 29 12 10 7 42 31 +11 46
7 Real Betis 29 10 12 7 34 33 +1 42
8 Valencia 28 11 7 10 32 32 +0 40
9 Villarreal 29 10 8 11 47 51 -4 38
10 Getafe 29 9 11 9 37 42 -5 38
11 Las Palmas 29 10 7 12 29 32 -3 37
12 Osasuna 29 10 6 13 33 43 -10 36
13 Alaves 29 8 8 13 26 35 -9 32
14 Mallorca 29 6 12 11 25 35 -10 30
15 Rayo Vallecano 29 6 11 12 25 38 -13 29
16 Sevilla 29 6 10 13 36 44 -8 28
17 Celta Vigo 29 6 9 14 32 44 -12 27
18 Cadiz 29 3 13 13 20 40 -20 22
19 Granada 28 2 8 18 30 58 -28 14
20 Almeria 29 1 10 18 28 57 -29 13

Spanish Primera Results

March 17, 2024
Atlético de Madrid 0 - 3 Barcelona
Rayo Vallecano 2 - 0 Real Betis
Villarreal 1 - 0 Valencia
Las Palmas 0 - 1 Almeria
Sevilla 1 - 2 Celta Vigo
March 16, 2024
Athletic Bilbao 2 - 0 Alaves
Getafe 1 - 0 Girona
Osasuna 2 - 4 Real Madrid
Mallorca 1 - 0 Granada
March 15, 2024
Real Sociedad 2 - 0 Cadiz
March 11, 2024
Almeria 2 - 2 Sevilla
March 10, 2024
Real Betis 2 - 3 Villarreal
Real Madrid 4 - 0 Celta Vigo
Las Palmas 0 - 2 Athletic Bilbao
Alaves 1 - 0 Rayo Vallecano
March 9, 2024
Girona 2 - 0 Osasuna
Granada 2 - 3 Real Sociedad
Cadiz 2 - 0 Atlético de Madrid
Valencia 1 - 0 Getafe
March 8, 2024
Barcelona 1 - 0 Mallorca

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