Michel urges Girona to move on from last season's fairytale run

Girona manager Michel emphasized the need for the team to move on from their impressive third-place finish in LaLiga last season. Following a disappointing 3-0 loss to Atletico Madrid on Sunday, he stressed that the players must now focus on starting anew in the current campaign, especially with the team currently in the bottom three.

After securing their best-ever league finish and a place in the Champions League for the first time Girona have been off the pace in the new campaign, drawing at Real Betis in their opener before losing heavily at Atletico.

"That is one of the challenges I have as a coach, to get the best version of each player by putting the counter to zero, no one can think that our goal is to finish third again," Michel told a news conference.

"We're always going to be compared but it's clear to us that we're a team that has to work with humility, we have to keep growing, we have pride and we want to be better than last year, we'll try but we'll always keep our feet on the ground."

Despite the score, the Spaniard took some positives from their performance against "a great team".

"I don't look too much at the result, but we have to be quicker in the game and we have to be more aggressive with and without the ball," he added. "In defence and in pressing situations we did well."

Girona will look for their first LaLiga win of the season on Thursday when they host Osasuna.