Girona beat Slovan Bratislava 2-0 to grab first Champions League win

Girona fullback Miguel Gutierrez scored successful the archetypal fractional and defender Juanpe added a 2nd extremity from a escaped footwear successful the 73rd infinitesimal arsenic they bushed visitors Slovan Bratislava 2-0 connected Tuesday to grounds their archetypal triumph successful the Champions League.

The location broadside could person added to their pb arsenic Cristhian Stuani's precocious punishment was saved but they cruised to triumph successful beforehand of their location crowd, who loudly hailed their heroes arsenic they secured their archetypal points successful their maiden European play aft a ascendant display.

Gutierrez and Dutch winger Arnaut Danjuma combined brilliantly passim connected the near wing, and it was Danjuma's tally to the byline and pull-back that acceptable up Gutierrez to interruption the deadlock for the Spaniards with a first-time decorativeness 3 minutes earlier halftime.

Girona continued to outclass their Slovakian visitors aft the interruption and Dominik Takac saved brilliantly from Bojan Miovski successful the 54th infinitesimal to forestall the location broadside expanding their lead.

Girona yet went 2-0 up erstwhile a nonstop escaped footwear from Juanpe glanced disconnected 1 of the players successful the partition earlier flying into the net.

However, the momentum shifted precocious connected erstwhile Stuani's punishment was batted distant by Takac and the visitors created respective chances.

They went adjacent doubly successful stoppage clip arsenic Tigran Barseghyan had a changeable turned behind, and substitute Julius Szoke sent a header from the resulting country bouncing disconnected the apical of the crossbar.

Despite the precocious pressure, Girona held connected to instrumentality each 3 points to permission them successful 20th spot successful the 36-team array aft Tuesday's games, portion Slovan Bratislava stay bottommost aft 3 consecutive defeats and with a extremity quality of -10.

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