La Liga Roundup: Cadiz beats Girona to escape drop zone
MADRID — Cadiz beat Girona 2-0 at residence to flee from the Spanish league relegation zone on Friday.
The modest group from southern Spain jumped from 18th to fifteenth place earlier than the remainder of the spherical.
Valencia fell into the underside three and at risk of the drop.
Midfielder Gonzalo Escalante and striker Sergi Guardiola, who each joined Cadiz within the winter switch market, scored for the hosts.
Escalante managed a cross by Brian Ocampo and fired into the higher a part of the online for the sixth-minute opener — and his second purpose in three video games for his new membership.
Guardiola added one other purpose within the thirty fourth with a strike from an angle after Theo Bondonga led a counterattack.
Coach Sergio Gonzalez has managed to show Cadiz round after its horrible begin to the season of 5 straight losses with no targets scored. Since then it has gone unbeaten at residence in eight video games. It has been within the relegation zone since Round 2.
“We needed this win,” Guardiola stated. “Like I said when I arrived here, if we stick together we will pull through.”
Girona remained in eleventh place.
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