{"id":37554,"date":"2023-12-20T03:23:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T03:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/girona-reclaim-la-liga-top-spot-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2023-12-20T03:23:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T03:23:07","slug":"girona-reclaim-la-liga-top-spot-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/girona-reclaim-la-liga-top-spot-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Girona reclaim La Liga top spot | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<strong class=\"location-names\"><br \/>\nLONDON:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>La Liga leader Girona has to earn the right to be regarded as a title contender alongside giants <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2448811\/real-madrid-keep-pace-with-girona\">Real Madrid<\/a>, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid, coach Michel said after Monday\u2019s win over Alaves.<\/p>\n<p>The 3-0 home win propelled Girona back to the top of the standings with 44 points from 17 matches, two more than second-placed Real and nine above Barcelona, which Girona defeated earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMadrid is going to fight for the league. Barca is going to fight for the league. Atletico is going to fight for the league,\u201d Michel told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cWe have to earn that right&#8230; (and) end the year in the best way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Girona has been the surprise package of the season and has stretched its unbeaten streak to 11 league games.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cI expected a much tougher game, much more complicated with transitions from the opponent, but we didn\u2019t let them do it at any time,\u201d the Spaniard said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reality is that we are in good shape, and we have had an incredible first half of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2448269\/giro-fail-to-reclaim-top-la-liga-spot\">Girona<\/a> will visit Real Betis in their final match of 2023 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cTrying to win at Real Betis\u2019 field, which is a beautiful game to play with a spectacular atmosphere and with the maximum difficulty because it is also a team that will be fighting in Europe,\u201d Michel said.<\/p>\n<p>Girona\u2019s best finish in La Liga is 10th, so there is optimism it will at least make history this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cThere is still a lot left, and we have to enjoy the moment. We have to go game by game and recognise that these players are making history,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v5.0&#038;appId=419051588770002&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: La Liga leader Girona has to earn the right to be regarded as a title contender alongside giants Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid, coach Michel said after Monday\u2019s win over Alaves. The 3-0 home win propelled Girona back to the top of the standings with 44 points from 17 matches, two more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/giron1703028581-0\/giron1703028581-0.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}