Tenerife will try to take advantage of the push of its public to beat Girona after the tie in the first leg
MADRID/SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 18. (EUROPA PRESS) –
CD Tenerife and Girona FC will play each other this Sunday at the Heliodoro Rodríguez López (8:00 p.m. Canarian time/Movistar LaLiga) for the last ticket to be promoted to LaLiga Santander, a second leg of the ‘Playoff’ in which the Canarians arrive with the advantage that granted to play at home after the draw of the first leg.
The first round in Montilivi ended goalless, all in a clash in which the Catalans, playing in their third promotion final in a row, dominated but failed to materialize their chances. Now, it will be the Tenerife venue that decides who will accompany Almería and Real Valladolid in the First Division.
“The only thing that goes through my head is to play a good game and try to win,” explained the chicharrero team’s coach, Luis Miguel Ramis. “Many types of situations can arise, because the match can take place in different contexts, but we are prepared to compete in any circumstance,” he warned.
The Canaries, in addition to playing with a devoted public, also have on their side the fact of having finished higher in the standings in the regular season; their fifth place, against the sixth of the ‘gironins’, would give them promotion in case of a tie after extra time. At stake, the return to the highest category of Spanish football 12 years later.
Meanwhile, Girona goes to Santa Cruz de Tenerife with the hope that the third time will be the charm. “Girona deserves to go up for insistence. It has been a team that has always known how to get up. It has cried, but has been able to reverse the situation, try again, be in the fight again,” said Míchel, the Catalans’ coach .
This time, he hopes to fulfill the law of the sixth classified, as happened with Elche in 2020 and with Rayo Vallecano in 2021, precisely his executioners in the last promotion finals. To do this, they will have the effectiveness of the Uruguayan Christian Stuani, who at Ipurua became the top scorer in the club’s history and who hopes to make up for having run out of gunpowder in the first leg.
DATA SHEET.
–POSSIBLE ALIGNMENTS.
CD TENERIFE: Soriano; Shaq Moore, Sergio Gonzalez, Leon, Mellot; Mollejo, Corredera, Aitor Sanz, Bermejo; Gallego and Mario Gonzalez.
GIRONA FC: Juan Carlos; Arnau, Santi Bueno, Bernardo, Juanpe, Valery; Baena, Lozano, Aleix García, Iván Martín and Stuani.
–REFEREE: Archdeacon Monescillo (C.Castellano-La Mancha).
–STADIUM: Heliodoro Rodríguez López.
–TIME: 8:00 p.m. (Canarian time)/Movistar LaLiga.
