No one expected an old player to be able to launch a shot from a distance, even at the age of almost 40 Modric looked like he was still young. Girona also did not make many dangerous attacks from the start, maybe there were 1 or 2 but Courtois could still anticipate them while the rest Madrid still had a record because the performance of their strikers was not so impressive. There were many goal opportunities wasted because they were late to execute, holding the ball too much so that the momentum was lost.
Girona goes from bad to worse this season indeed. Every team that plays against Madrid recently have score at least one goal due to their porous defense nature but unfortunately Girona failed to register even one goal. The couch contributed to this for not making appropriate changes. Modric scored with a distant shot but Girona learned nothing from that. None of the players attempt to make a shoot from afar even when they had the chance to. I think that was the fourth time meeting Madrid and they don't have any single goals in the whole four games. I don't know what has changed but Girona were promising last season. Perhaps, it is because the good players were loaned out to other teams and the team is now consists of average players.