Finally. Girona climbed into the First Division and made it to the fifth promotion round they were up against, the third in a row. Until now playing ‘play off’ was synonymous with failure, of failure. And this is the rojiblanco group never rise through promotion: in 2013 he fell in the final against Almería, in 2016 he lost to Osasuna and in 2020 and 2021 he brutally knelt against Elche and Rayo Vallecano. The only promotion in the First Division came directly, after being second in the 2016-2017 season. Until now.
Farewell to the curse of being the only club to have lost more than one final (4) because ‘play off’ is played under the current format (2010-2011). With or without a crown, Girona is the ‘king’, the team that has won the most finals. Of the five, they lead Real Valladolid (two finals won two) and UD Las Palmas, Huesca and Elche (one of two). And it is, along with Real Zaragoza, the only club to have played promotion three times or more and has not yet risen to the First Division in this way.
The final against Tenerife has been the fifth consecutive promotion resolved between the fifth and sixth classified from the regular league. In 2018 and 2019 the fifth rose (Real Valladolid and Mallorca) and in 2020 and 2021 the sixth rose (Elche and Rayo Vallecano, both against Girona, in Montilivi). Now Míchel has done just that by going to the sixth train car.
E what now those who preceded this course gave an advantage over the fifth, a Tenerife who have won two regular league clashes (2-1 to Heliodoro Rodríguez López and 0-1 to Montilivi) and fought (0-0) in the first leg of the final. But Girona remained in their state of mind and, as they did in Ipurua against an Eibar team that also won their two league games, they signed a victory over Heliodoro that is already part of Catalan history. club.
As historically it is Cristhian Stuani. The Uruguayan, who will be 36 in October, was once again decisive, scoring on him goal number 106 using the Girona shirt (in 176 games) and thus surpassing the legendary Arcadi Camps. This season he has scored 23 of the team’s 59 goals and since he arrived in 2017 from Middelsbrough his average scorer has been 0.6 goals per game. Brutal.
THE ‘CHICHARRERO’ GAFE
Tenerife, on the other hand, which is seeking a fifth promotion in its history, is faced with reality.. His cross, receiving the first goal in a match against Heliodoro Rodríguez López, is something that has been a difficult obstacle to overcome in recent years for a team with without returning from a match to win at their stadium since May 2019.
Since the chicharrero team derby against UD Las Palmas over three years ago he has not been able to win any game on the island that he started beating. He scored the first goal on Heliodoro Rodríguez López in 22 games in the league, resulting in a balance of 4 draws and 18 losses.
The arrival of Luis Miguel Ramis on the Canarian bench, in November 2020, failed to bury this grim statistic. With the coach from Tarragona, on 13 occasions Tenerife lost at one point in his stadium, games that ended in 3 draws and 10 losses.
Source: La Verdad
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