The Ukrainian forward scored his 18th goal this season championship of Spain
Gironaof Ukrainians Artem Dovbik and Viktor Tsygankov won a crushing victory at home over Cadiz in the match 32nd round of the Spanish La Liga – 4:1.
By the middle of the first half, Michel’s charges created a two-goal handicap: in the 9th Eric Garcia opened the scoring in the game in the 22nd minute, and in the 22nd minute Ivan Martin doubled the hosts' lead.
After the break, the “white-red” made the score devastating. In the 71st minute, Dovbik perfectly understood the opponent’s penalty area after a pass from Miguel Gutierrez and fired into the far corner from the goal line.
For the 26-year-old Ukrainian striker, this is already the 18th goal in this Primera League season. He leads the scoring race, also having 5 assists. Artem's closest pursuers are Jude Bellingham from Real Madrid and Ante Budimir from Osasuna, who scored 16 goals each.
In the 81st minute, Cadiz reduced the gap in the score with the efforts of Gonzalo Escalante, but the last word in this meeting still belonged to the Girona team – just a minute later, Porto answered with a goal. p>
Dovbik started for Girona and spent 86 minutes on the field before being replaced by Tony Villa. But Tsygankov was not included in the match list due to a knee injury.
Review of the match “Girona” – “Cadiz”
Girona (68 points) ranks third in the La Liga standings, two points behind Barcelona and ten behind Real Madrid, Ukrainian goalkeeper Andrey Lunin.
After this victory, Michel's team guaranteed itself participation in European competitions next season. Girona also has a very good chance of finishing in the top 4 and qualifying for the Champions League – with six rounds left, the lead over Athletic Bilbao, which is in fifth position, is 10 points.
Note that that Real Madrid and Barcelona have a match in hand: on Sunday, April 21, they will meet in El Classico at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid.
Cadiz (25 points) remained in the zone relegation, in 18th place Examples, with a lag of 6 points from the 17th line, which allows them to maintain their registration in the elite division.
In the next round, the team of Dovbik and Tsygankov will meet on the road with Las Vegas on April 27 Palmas.” A day later, Cadiz will host Mallorca.
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