Although some still do not know the one who is Pablo Machín, to the trainer of the Girona is winning to pulse have a place between the experts of LaLiga, since after reaching the longed for promotion with the Catalan group, his are giving the face. It warned the soriano in the previous press conference to his clash against the Barça that had his ideas to stop to the Barcelona, and did not do fault long to observe them on the lawn.

"Leo Messi is a superdotado, the best of all time", had commented the technician, that signalled to the Argentinian like one of the greater dangers in Montilivi. And during some minutes attained to reduce him, with an adjust tactical little usual in these times: An individual labeling. Pablo Maffeo was the attendant to pursue to the '10', and did not surrender not even after seeing the yellow card by an agarrón in the minute 22.

But if something characterises to Machín is his courage to the hour to apply his concepts, something that can see also in the atypical training that presents the Girona. The preparador warned that it would do without one of his keys in Second Division if it did not have effect in First, but the 3-5-2 seems to keep on being useful.

Tactical war

If Pablo Machín has moved first in the chessboard of Montilivi, Ernesto Valverde has not remained short. The Txingurri posed solutions for the Barça of face to surpass the fortresses of the Girona, and his plan began giving his fruits. To counter the numerical superiority in the medullary, the speed and the passes hammered were leading, an alternative that approached to the Barcelona to the three points.