Girona seems to never tire of making history and in the city of Girona it is inevitable to breathe a triumphant atmosphere. The rojiblanco block was confirmed, after beating Alcorcón (1-0) and taking advantage of Sporting's draw in Fuenlabrada, as playoff team this season. He even has one day left over, Sunday against Cartagena, and it is something that deserves to be savored because a few months ago seeing the rojiblanco block among the top six classified seemed crazy. But his unbeatable streak, chain seven victories in a row (The last time he did it was the 1988-89 season and the team was in Third) It has catapulted him and made the goal come true. Of course, the dream, now, is to be promoted to First and for this he still has a long way to go.
Girona knows that the playoff is full of thorns and does not bring back good memories. In addition, you can speak knowingly because this course will live your fifth promotion of the last eight years and he has never managed to make the leap to First in this way. Although this season it seems that everything is going much more smoothly and Francisco will have the opportunity to achieve something that was impossible, for example, Rubi with Girona. With him the promotion for promotion was disputed in the 2012-13 season and Almería, precisely their current team, left them one more year in the Second Division after beating them in the final. Two years later, in 2014-15, with Pablo Machín on the bench, the Girona team returned to a playoff and it was Zaragoza who made them bitter. The Aragonese came back in the second leg in Montilivi with a win (4-1) difficult to explain because in the first leg, the rojiblancos won 0-3 at La Romareda. The truth is that Girona is not a team to which promotion brings joy because a year later, 2015-16, it was again at the gates of promotion. They beat Córdoba in the semifinal, but Osasuna beat them in the final both in the first leg (2-1) and in the return match (0-1).
In 2017, Girona did manage to remove the thorn after so many blows in the playoff, but the jump to First came directly.
Undoubtedly, the promotion promotion does not quite smile at a club that had yet another verification last season. Elche, in the second leg of the final and in Montilivi, showed them that the long road to climb is not good for them. Although in Girona they think that at some point it will have to be and this year they will try to get rid of the bad taste in their mouths by making the 'fifth time charm' theirs. The sensations now are very different from those of the past and it is that being able to add 21 points from the last 21 makes anyone smile. This state of grace is the one that wants to lengthen a template that intends to follow its history.