The Girona faces its third consecutive playoff and a motto resounds in the locker room: the third time must be the charm. Nothing else is conceivable in a group that has proven to know how to get up from the suffered tremendous blows in the last two playoffs after fall in the finals against Elche and Rayo Vallecano. Míchel has been in charge of restoring joy and enthusiasm to the Girona fans this year and currently they are only four games away to reach the desire to return to First.
Girona has never managed to ascend through the playoff route to First Division and that has accumulated experience because this will be the sixth of the most recent stage of the club. Although this occasion has on its side the ‘law of the sixth classified‘. In the last two seasons, the team that finished the League in the sixth position was the one who achieved go up to first. In Girona they want to continue this dynamic and more so considering that they suffered it live in Montilivi. Elche was the one who deprived of the dream of promotion two courses ago and the past was Rayo Vallecano.
This season, yes, Montilivi will not be able to celebrate any promotion to First because both the semifinal and a hypothetical final would be resolved at home. the factor fieldbeing sixth, Girona has it against. And it is that the rojiblanco feud seems like a magnet for rival teams to rise. Apart from Elche and Rayo Vallecano he also did it health, precisely in another playoff final, the 2015-16 campaign. The Navarrese beat them in both matches. The rojillos, curious or not, also disputed that promotion finishing the League in sixth position. Girona has the traced path and he knows perfectly well that upload must follow.