Girona boss Michel was delighted to see Bojan Miovski finally get off the mark in La Liga and believes that comparisons made between the former Aberdeen star and Artem Dovbyk are unfair.
The Spanish side paid the Dons a fee of £6.8million to sign the North Macedonia international in the summer after selling Ukrainian goal machine Dovbyk – who won La Liga‘s golden boot last season – to Roma in Serie A for €38million (£31.5million). Miovski’s only two goals in his first 11 outings in all competitions had came against lower league side Extremadura last month with manager Michel admitting that the striker had to do more to try and adapt to his team’s style of play.
But after the 25-year-old hit a brace and grabbed an assist in Saturday’s 4-1 hammering of Espanyol, Michel was glad to see the former Pittodrie favourite’s work rate finally pay off in a Spanish top-tier game. He said: “For Bojan, I am very happy, very much so, because he is a player who gives his all in training, who was worried about scoring a goal and today he played a great game.
“With the ball, without the ball, he always tries to do his best for the team and he is a player who needs time. Of course, comparisons are always bad and that’s why I think he was suffering and right now I’m happy for him.
“I always say ‘we can’t control the environment’. We try to foster the working atmosphere we have within so that each player gives their best. He was suffering, because you can’t compare him to anyone. And Bojan is not Artem,… I’ve already forgotten. Bojan is not Artem, he’s Bojan, and he needs people to understand that he comes to work, he comes to do well, he comes to work.
“He’s a guy who always gives his all and things can go well or badly for him, but the fact that he scored two goals today, for him it’s a relief and for me,… I had already told him that he has to be calm because he’s working very well and he’s doing many positive things for the team. It’s good news that he scored two goals and made an assist.”
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