The message from Quique Álvarez was blunt enough, and it was exactly the sort of message a team still searching for rhythm needs to hear. Girona are not being told to reinvent themselves before Girona Vs Fc Andorra. They are being told to do something far more basic: win again, then win again after that.
After the final training session before the match at Montilivi, Álvarez made it clear that the squad arrive with good feelings, but also with a problem that cannot be ignored. Girona have shown flashes, but that is not the same as reliability. And in football, reliability is the difference between a promising spell and a proper run.
Good feelings are not the same as consistency
Álvarez did not dress it up. He said it would be important to find the line that allows the side to link victories, because Girona have been irregular in some areas and need to correct that. That is the heart of the matter. One decent performance does not erase the awkward ones that came before it. One encouraging week does not suddenly fix a team that has not yet settled into itself.
That is why this fixture matters. Girona are not just trying to beat Andorra. They are trying to prove that they can turn momentum into something more durable. Álvarez spoke about the need to know how to take advantage of good moments and manage the bad ones. That is not a tactical luxury. It is the basic discipline of a side that wants to stop living game to game.
Andorra, for their part, are hardly arriving as passengers. Álvarez described them as a difficult team to play against, and the recent record backs that up. They had a strong start to the league, then hit a poor spell, but in their last three matches they have found some recovery with two wins and one draw. That is enough to make this a proper test rather than a comfortable afternoon on paper.
A test of Girona's response
Álvarez also pointed to Andorra's win against Castellón, a side that had not lost before that match, as a reminder that this opponent can hurt you if you are not switched on. So the challenge for Girona is obvious. They need to compete, they need to control their moments, and they need to show that the good feeling around the camp is backed by something sturdier than optimism.
His final message was confident enough: Girona will take the step and compete. Fine. But confidence is cheap if it is not followed by control, by patience, by the kind of performance that produces a result and then another result after that. That is what Álvarez is really asking for here. Not a miracle. Not a perfect display. Just a team that finally stops being erratic and starts behaving like one that knows exactly how to stack wins together.
