Girona will face Garitano’s Eibar in the semifinals of the playoffs for promotion to the First Divisionin a tie where the blacksmiths are the clear favorites after finishing third in the league and clearly winning and deserving of the two duel played between the two this season.
All teams have a rival who has the size made and who is really bad at it and in Girona the clear candidate to be their black beast is Eibar, who they have not won in the League since 2013 and who came out winner in the last six consecutive meetings in which they met in both the Second and First Divisions.
The history between Girona and Eibar, two teams that have established themselves in professional football throughout the 21st century, started in 2009the first season of modern football in which both coincided in the Second Division, in itself the only time the Catalan team achieved a win and a draw and not defeated by the Basques, the only time this happened.
Both coincided again in 2013-2014also in the Second, and at that time came the Girona’s only victory in Ipurúa (0-3) on five occasions he visited the armory fiefdom. Since the second leg, where the result was a draw (1-1) with Montilivi, six consecutive games began in a row between both teams, ending in victory for Eibar and that, in the interest of the Catalan team, they expect it to end next Thursday.
The 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 season, the most successful of Girona in its entire history, the only to become Spain’s football elite, the rivalry that has always existed in the silver category has moved to the First Division. Four consecutive wins for Eibar during this period where everyone was hit (4-1, 1-4, 2-3 and 3-0) and where the “fear” of the Basque team was established from Montilivi.
At this time, whose relegation was Eibar and where the Basques were one of the favorite climbers, as they showed by direct promotion in 14 of the last 15 days, Girona also did not include Eibar. Míchel’s team beat Almería in the Mediterranean Games and were drawn to Zorrilla, but against the only team in the top three games where Eibar did not score, with whom lost 4-2 to Ipurúa and 0-1 to Montilivi.
Source: La Verdad
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