The thirty obstacles

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Without being the best person to talk to –ask me in a few years-, turning thirty is always seen as the first step towards something, we don’t really know what, that changes. The famous ‘thirty barrier’ seems to be something that no one wants to see because of the stigmas that society has left us with over time. In the middle of all these gardens, where I no longer dared to dig, someone who was happy to reach that figure appeared. He is Michel Sanchez.

He Girona It now has the long-awaited thirty points which, thanks to the last three, have been achieved for double the amount. Add them to La Catedral and consider five, with the permission of Getafe, of the nine teams below the Girona team emerged victorious, there is no doubt, then, that we are facing something more than three points. Thirty, who would think, came like rain in May to get seven above the drop.

The thirty obstacles came slowly, but they appeared when the team not only found the key from Montilivi. In San Mamés they just won Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and spanish until this season. Some fans did not hide after the game and confessed that they do not expect a victory in a very complicated fiefdom year after year. That does not count that the team did not score or even scored in Bilbao. If there is always a first time to reach thirty, imagine if there are first times in football.

The thirty obstacles reached after the victories in Getafe, Valladolid, Elche, Seville, Valencia, Almeria and Athletic, the latter twice. It adds one by one in front of Mallorca, Cádiz, Osasuna, Real Madrid, Rayo Vallecano and spanish. In all this the Girona will seek to strike the capital in March, as clashes unfold in front of Getafehints, Atletico Madrid and Vallecano Ray. Coincidentally or not, the rojiblanco team will start the month of April avoiding the same blow towards the Catalan capital, facing off against spanish already FC Barcelona. For this, there is still a long way to go.

“I’m so happy”

The thirty obstacles are a great step to forget the wrinkles and rejuvenate a staff that begins to perform and navigate where, minimally, it belongs here. Having reached the figure is a great deed but little else, or so the coach sees it. “I’m very happy because there are 30 points that don’t tell us anything but they make us reach an important barrier with 15 games left,” he said.

But Michael You’re wrong, those thirty points tell us something. No team that reached the thirty barrier in matchday 23 ended up being relegated. They are not mathematics at all, but they are statistics that can develop in the form of indications about the continuation of the team in the highest category of football for at least one year.