Elche and Girona will play for promotion in Montilivi

Elche and Girona drew 0-0 in a match in which the pitch of the Martinez Valero greatly conditioned the little football that could be seen and in which once again the defensive wall of the Pacheta managed to dry up the attack of the Francisco. The goalless draw is a good result for the people of Elche who did not concede at home, while at Girona It will only be worth winning or repeating the 0-0 to be a team of First.

Both teams saw each other in Alicante in the first leg of the grand final to be promoted to First division, in a scenario that, despite seeming impossible due to the magnitude of the event, presented a more than disappointing image due to the terrible state of the grass.

This factor, determining from the beginning, complicated the associative game of the Girona, which took twenty minutes to settle on the grass. The locals, with three center-backs and two lanes, were clear about their game plan, which was to attract and launch into space to find the back of the Girona defense.

Until 30 'it was impossible for the people of Girona to be able to find in their area of ​​creation Samu saiz, nor to Borja Garcia, probably the two players who most accused the state of the grass. The “14” tried several lines from outside to inside, but without finding any Stuani for definition. Without also being able to obtain clear chances, the people from Elche looked for the depth of their lanes and subsequent centers to the area to find the fireproof Boy.

As already happened in the two regular league matches, the Elche They proved to be a solid team and tremendously worked on defense.

In the resumption those of Francisco they advanced lines and took a step forward in search of the so valuable goal in the opposite field. Samu and Borja, with more freedom on the field, they exchanged their positions generating problems and doubts behind those of Pacheta, who barely stepped on the opposite field in the first twenty minutes of the second half.

Samu and Ignasi Miquel had the clearest for those of Francisco. The first one tried with a cross shot from the edge of the area and the center-back was able to send the ball to the back of the net, but incomprehensibly he finished off very wide. Josan and Fidel they entered for him Elche when there was still a quarter of an hour left to look for alternatives in attack, but thinking more about not fitting in than about winning the game. Everything is open for the duel in Montilivi.