Girona and Tenerife begin the final battle for promotion
BARCELONA, 10 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Girona and Tenerife will fight from this Saturday (9:00 p.m.) in Montilivi for the last available ticket to be promoted to LaLiga Santander in a final playoff that pits the two worst ranked among the top six in the regular competition, and that they are being stronger in these qualifiers.
The Catalan team knew how to suffer against Eibar and recovered the punch to overcome in the tie, while Tenerife took Gran Canaria and culminated its superiority in the semifinal, in a hot derby.
Both teams will fight for the coveted promotion, an achievement that is elusive for Girona as they face their third consecutive final. This time those of Míchel want to follow the law of the sixth classified, as it already happened with Elche and Rayo Vallecano in 2020 and 2021, the ‘executioners’ of the ‘gironins’ who achieved promotion.
Therefore, they will try to cling to the experience of their coach, who is two games away from adding his third promotion after achieving it with Rayo Vallecano and SD Huesca. Montilivi will be a pressure cooker as all the tickets for the game are sold out in just over 24 hours.
A complicated visit for Tenerife, who will attend the Catalan fiefdom for the tenth time, although it will not be a problem for Ramis’ team, who won both clashes in the silver category.
Precisely, away from the Heliodoro they have demonstrated the efficiency that has placed them as the best visitor of LaLiga SmartBank. An influential performance, thanks to their defensive solvency, with which they finished the regular competition as the team with the second fewest goals, only behind the champion, UD Almería.
In front they will have a goal insurance for Girona. Christian Stuani, the team’s main asset, will seek to break the Tenerife lock at a ‘sweet’ moment for the Uruguayan. In fact, the top scorer in the competition got his 106th goal in 176 games at Ipurua, making him the top scorer in the club’s history.
For Luis Miguel Ramis, the key will be not to speculate. “There is no plan to stop Stuani. We have to play a serious game, with rigor and concentration. I am sure that Girona will make some nuances. They have expanded their resources and I expect a very complete team. It is a group with many possibilities. We both know each other,” he said in the preview.
Míchel recognized the equality between both teams. “I don’t know if this year is the right one, but we will compete and seek victory. I have asked the team to be humble, to remember where we come from. final and it’s time to make history”, he explained about his team, which will have Darío Sarmiento, Ibrahima Kebé and Borja García out due to injury.
GIRONA FC: Juan Carlos; Santi Bueno, Juanpe, Bernardo, Jairo, Arnau Martínez; Baena, Lozano, Aleix García, Samu Sáiz and Stuani.
CD TENERIFE: Soriano; Moore, Sergio Gonzalez, Leon, Mellot; Mollejo, Corredera, Sanz, Bermejo; Gallego and Mario Gonzalez.
–REFEREE: Hernández Maeso (C. Extremeño).
–STADIO: Montilivi.
–TIME: 9:00 p.m./Movistar LaLiga.
