Girona will welcome Getafe to Estadio Municipal de Montilivi with both sides looking to get their first win of the season.
Venue: Estadio Municipal de Montilivi (Girona)
Key Statistics
Girona are winless in ten of their last eleven top-flight encounters.
They lost eight of those encounters by just a single goal.
Getafe are winless in their last seven Monday La Liga games (D2, L5), failing to score in each of the last six.
The visitors ended round one as the only side without a shot on target.
They are winless in their last six games (D2, L4).
Head to head
Both teams have an lidentical record in this fixture, with each side enjoying two wins in eight head-to-head encounters.
Latest performances in all competitions
Girona: L-D-W-L-W
Getafe: L-L-L-D-D
Girona
Girona, welcome Getafe to the Estadio Municipal de Montilivi as they look to bounce back from their first-round loss away to Valencia.
The newly promoted side fell to a 1-0 loss to Gennaro Gattuso’s dogged team in the first round of matches, courtesy of a first half extra time penalty strike from Club Captain Carlos Soler.
Despite their first-round loss to Valencia, head coach Michel Miguel Munoz was very pleased with the defensive performance his side put in against their more fancied opponent, limiting them to only but a few attempts on goal, albeit neither creating many chances of their own.
Having gained promotion last year Girona will have to put in the fight of their lives to remain in the Spanish top-flight beyond this season. Head coach Michel Miguel Munoz will be keen to have the home support as they look to inflict more misery on Enrique Flores’ team who suffered a 0-3 home loss to Atletico Madrid last Monday.
With three draws and one win apiece in their last five matches, Michael Muñoz will be banking on his team to go even better than they did against Gattuso’s men as they seek to produce a first win against Getafe since 2017 and finally get their season off to a good start.
Possible Girona starting line-up
Juan Carlos; Santiago Bueno, David Lopez, Juanpe; Yan Couto, Ramón Terrats, Aleix Garcia; Valery Fernández, Rodrigo Riquelme, Samuel Saiz Alonso, V. Castellanos.
Injured: Borja Garcia, Ibrahima Kebe, Bernardo Espinosa
Doubtful: None
Suspended: None
Getafe
After succumbing to a 0-3 defeat to Atletico Madrid last time out, Enrique Flores will be keen to see his men to all three points against the division newcomers when they travel to Catalonia.
Getafe currently find themselves occupying an unwanted bottom-of-the-table position in the La Liga standings after one round of football.
The Madrid-based outfit were totally outclassed by Diego Simeone’s men, finding their defence breached twice by returning striker Alvaro Morata either side of the half, with Antoine Griezmann coming off the bench to put the tie beyond doubt.
The manner of the loss and the way in which Joao Felix was able to pick his team apart time and again will serve as somewhat an eye opener for Enrique Flores who has some serious work to do if his team are to improve on their 15th placed finish for two seasons running now.
Albeit, Getafe will fancy themselves favourites to emerge victorious against Girona, with an antecedent of their encounters ending in draws, Enrique Flores knows that his team will have to be perfect against the promoted side to secure all three points.
Possible Getafe starting line-up
David Soria; Stefan Mitrovic, Domingos Duarte; Juan Iglesias, Carles Aleña, Nemanja Maksimovic, Mauro Arambarri, Fabricio Angileri; Borja Mayoral, Enes Ünal.
Injured: Damian Suarez,
Doubtful: None
Suspended: None
Prediction
Girona 1-1 Getafe
