Michel admitted that Girona are now not the identical staff that took LaLiga by storm final season and urged them to rediscover their identification.
Girona have been the shock package deal final season, going toe-to-toe with Actual Madrid and Barcelona within the title race earlier than finally ending third in LaLiga.
Nonetheless, the membership let go of Golden Boot winner Artem Dovbyk, who scored 24 LaLiga objectives final season, and influential midfielder Aleix Garcia within the switch window.
Although they introduced in reinforcements, together with Donny van de Beek from Manchester United, they haven’t but discovered their rhythm, dropping every of their final three video games in all competitions.
In that run, which features a 1-0 defeat to Paris Saint-Germain of their Champions League debut, they’ve managed a mixed eight photographs on track from 20 makes an attempt, and netted only one aim, failing to attain in every of the final two.
“Issues occur for a motive,” Michel advised a information convention. “Our actuality is that we’ve got misplaced three video games in a row, and it’s tough as a result of folks count on the staff to win.
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“Proper now we aren’t the staff we have been final 12 months, we’re one other one.”
“With the ball, we aren’t hurting the opponent and which means that we’ve got to endure. We should play with fewer touches and have the ability to search for and for that I would like excessive depth. This can be a machine that has to work now.
“Proper now we’re twelfth and that’s our actuality. Now we have to enhance to win video games constantly as folks count on. Now we have to undergo the method, and we are going to endure.”
Winger Portu is accessible after an ankle knock, giving Michel a totally match squad as he prepares to face the membership the place he spent most of his enjoying profession and took his first steps into administration.
“It’s a particular match which I by no means take pleasure in. It’s going to at all times be like this,” Michel added. “[Rayo] is the membership the place I’ve lived, and my life is in Vallecas.
“They’re an awesome staff in each approach. They’re the staff that presses probably the most and finest within the league, they usually have the next depth than anybody else. It isn’t straightforward to create scoring possibilities in opposition to them.”
