Girona Needs The First Oriol Romeu Back

‘Girona needs an organizer’, or ‘with the departure of Aleix Garcia…’ are some of the most common expressions in a broadcast of the Gironaboth in those who stand in front of the microphone and those who religiously pay their subscription to watch the game.

The Catalans look in their core for that piece that organizes, distributes, calms down and reads the game based on the team’s style, a task carried out by Aleix Garcia during last season. “Aleix was in charge of that, but he is in Leverkusen,” said Aleix himself. Michel at the end of one of his last games.

Even so, the ‘gironins’ once again trusted Oriol Romeu after an almost blank season for Ulldecona. Quique Cárcel and the Vallecano coach, specialists in bringing out the best in each footballer, even in his second stages with the elastic ‘blanc-i-vermella’, once again opted for a man who fell on his feet when he returned from England.

The Catalan team needs Oriole and vice versa. This season, the midfielder has played seven of the eleven games that have been played between LaLiga and the Champions League, with a total of 407 minutes. That is to say, despite being the only pure pivot of the squad, the ‘senglar’ has only been able to appear in less than 50% of minutesalso due to his injury that kept him away from the last two games.

Those numbers have nothing to do with the ones romeu signed upon arrival in the Catalan province. Despite arriving with the championship started, without being able to enter the first three matchdays, Oriol landed one day before the matchday against Mallorca, becoming a starter right away. But that is not what is most surprising: the midfielder, with the exception of the forced rest due to the accumulation of yellow cards and the first Cup match in which he was called off, He played 21 consecutive games playing 90 minutesa streak that was broken on matchday 25 against Atlético de Madrid with 75 minutes played. Aside from that day, along with a new yellow penalty and three minutes that he didn’t get against Real Sociedad – leaving in the 87th minute -, Oriol played absolutely everything, reaching a whopping 3,042 minutes played in 34 appearances.

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Translated into numbers, the center played all 34 games starting as a starter and in them he played an average of 89 minutes. In general terms, counting those who were lost due to rest or sanction, Romeu was involved in 92% of the minutes throughout the season.

These are very distorted figures compared to this season, although Michel He fully trusts in the player’s recovery. For Oriolereturning home means happiness, and the one from Ulldecona continues working so that the 41% of minutes accumulated this season increases favorably until he once again becomes one of the key pieces of the Girona.