One more season, faithful to the appointment for the third consecutive year, Girona, mesell like few others, wants to try again. After one campaign full of setbacks and in which the team knew how to recover from one start of course more than worrying, Michel he got his ideas set and the staff rolled. Forty-two days later, the team returns to to dream with the ascent to First. He is fully aware of the enormous difficulty of achieving it in a play-off, but also with the lesson learned from the last bad experiences. Eibar is the first hurdle this evening in a Montilivi that can be full. As of last night, more than 9,000 tickets had been sold, which means that there will be the best ticket from the stage in the First Division. The fans, delivered, will respond and make the stadium a boiler in order to push theirs and to frighten a rival, touched as a result of being left without direct promotion four days ago in Alcorcón in the last day of League.
The 7,432 spectators who went on to win against Real Sociedad B were by far the best entry of the season. This figure was already exceeded on Tuesday and today it can be quite short if the fans continue to get excited. In this sense, Montilivi will overcome the last great entry before the pandemic, which was against Albacete (7,914 spectators). Definitely a gala atmosphere and a holiday that will begin a couple of hours before the match with the reception that the fans have prepared on the team bus and that he hopes will be a talisman like the day of Mirandés. On the visitor side, the arrival of a hundred Eibar fans is expected.
Michel did not rule out Borja Garcia for the match yesterday
Off the field, Girona will win by a landslide. On the grass will be another story. Michel’s side struggled to secure a 0-0 lead last Sunday in Burgos in a match where the team’s legs shook in the end. Probably, Girona does not arrive at the best time of the course in the play-offs, but it is also true that in the last two games in Montilivi, against Tenerife and Mirandés, the team has played at a very high level. Nor does it arrive at its best, Eibar in Montilivi. The Basques saw how they missed the direct ascent of the fingers in the last play of the last day last Sunday in Alcorcón (1-0). A beating that hurts and is very similar to the one that Girona has received in recent times. Yesterday, Gaizka Garitano was quick to point out that the team has recovered and is ready to get up and fight to get up. “Girona is not a favorite,” said the Basque coach. In the same vein, Míchel, who today hopes for “the best Eibar possible” and warns that it would be a mistake to think that Girona will have an emotional advantage.
Even though it looked like he might have said goodbye to the season, Michel did not rule it out yesterday Borja Garcia for the party. The Madrid man was injured in Burgos and had to be replaced. However, also, according to the technician, Ivan Martin i Roofs they have chances to play today, despite the injuries they drag. Juanpe he should play even though he still doesn’t turn completely round from his injury. With the Canary Islands ready, Girona will regain the line of three central defenders behind. Paul Lozano i Aleix Garcia are fixed in the middle while Brothers i Stuani they also have the guaranteed place. The question is who will be the liaison if Borja García cannot start from the start. The natural relief should be Samu Saiz. Sarmiento, Juncà i Bebe are ruled out due to injury.
Meanwhile, Eibar is still in a state of shock after the dramatic end in Alcorcón. Garitano he will not be able to count on the injured Feuillassier, Javi Muñoz i Òscar Sielvanor with the sanctioned start. The Basque coach could change system and form with three central defenders behind him. That would do that Rahmani o Fran Sol fall from an eleven where the fearsome ones will be exposition, Corpas i Stoichkov.
