Girona silences Tenerife and will play in First Division next season

Girona silences Tenerife and will play its third season in the First Division next year.

Miguel Ángel Sánchez Muñoz's team, Míchel, managed to overcome the hostile environment imposed by the more than 22,083 fans who filled the Heliodoro Rodríguez López Santacrucero.

Also to the intensity displayed on the field by the team led by Luis Miguel Ramis, who lost his second league in a row (the previous one was in 2017) just the year of his centenary.

Until this Sunday, Girona was weighed down by a kind of curse in the leagues for promotion to First Division, reports

Every time he had played a tie to rise to the elite of Spanish football – his only promotion was achieved directly in 2017 – he had been left with the desire.

It happened to him in 2013, 2016, 2020 and 2021. This is the third consecutive playoff final that he played.

And, according to what they said in the Catalan club, it was the one they arrived at with the least expectation.

Girona has been reducing its budget since it fell in 2018 and, while waiting for an injection of capital from its owners, this season it has pulled from the quarry (last season it was the turn of Ramón Terrats, Arnau Martínez, and Ibrahima Kebe, and this year that of Óscar Ureña and Gabriel Martínez), Stuani's scoring power and Michel's scoreboard.

Although always faithful to its sports director, Quique Cárcel, Girona found in Michel what it had been looking for for a long time.

After the successful stage of Pablo Machín (he achieved promotion in 2017 and kept it in the 2017-2018 campaign), the rojiblanco team tried out with Eusebio in the 2018-2019 season.

The Valladolid technician has a profile closer to the one the property is looking for, the City Group.

But Eusebio's stage ended with relegation.

Juan Carlos Unzue, Juan Carlos Moreno, José Luis Martí and Francisco passed, until Michel took over Montilivi's bench in July 2021.

Tenerife arrived confident in its possibilities and firm in the defensive solidity that established it as the second best defense in the regular league (37 goals conceded) and it has only conceded one goal in three games in the league.

It is a team forged by the hand of Luis Miguel Ramis, from Tarragona, who has imprinted a collective fighting spirit on his players.

And so, Girona managed to overcome in the initial moments the noisy euphoria and carnival atmosphere of the stands on a hot Sunday in Santa Cruz.

It didn't take long for Míchel's team to take control of the match, especially from the frequent arrivals on the right flank in Arnau's boots.

The people of Tenerife did not stretch until the first hydration break, bordering on half an hour, with two consecutive arrivals by Mario González and a shot with the hand of Enric Gallego.

It was just when the local team was pressing the most when two consecutive lashes from the visiting team altered the course of the match.

The first, a shot by Samu Sáiz, was repelled by local goalkeeper Juan Soriano;

the second, a shot by Juanpe from the edge of the box, was parried by Sergio González with his arm.

Silence in the Heliodoro and penalty confirmed by the VAR.

Stuani, the captain and idol from Girona, was in charge of placing the ball on the right side of the goal and sending the teams to rest with the slightest Catalan advantage.

Tenerife returned to the field plugged in, driven by an increasingly noisy grandstand that did not want to stop believing in promotion.

This time it was Girona who did not have the ball at their feet.

The Blue and Whites regained the intensity shown for much of the season with constant arrivals of a certain danger from Carlos Ruiz, Gallego and captain Aitor Sanz.

Until the delirium of the island came with Carlos Ruiz's header to the center of Alexandre in the 58th minute.

The Girona CF players celebrate their team's promotion to the first division after defeating Tenerife in the match they played today at the Heliodoro Rodríguez López stadium, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.Miguel Barreto (EFE)

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SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 06/19/2022.- The CD Tenerife player after falling in the match for promotion to Laliga Santander that they played today Sunday against Girona at the Heliodoro Rodríguez López stadium, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

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The carnival was then installed in the stands with a

who became owner and lord of the meeting.

And when the local team was more established, an apparently harmless run down the right side by Alex B. touched José León's chest, caught Juan Soriano off-foot and silenced for the second time a crowd that reacted with the launch of bottles of water and received a warning from the authorities.

Minute 68 and the locals had to row again.

There was no time for another gale like the one at the beginning of the second half.

In the 79th minute, another run down the right wing by Arnau definitively silenced the stands with the third goal from the visitors.

Then began the race against the clock for Ramis's team, this time without the clarity and faith of the first moments of the resumption and with a Girona that regained possession and calmed down with continuous losses of time.

Until the referee decreed the end six minutes over regulation time.

Club Deportivo Tenerife was once again on the verge of promotion, as happened in 2017 against Getafe.

“It was very difficult for us to understand the game”;

the chicharrero technician has assured.

“We were very nervous in the first half, and in the second we did the hardest part and mistakes pay off.

The second goal hurt us a lot”.

Another face presented Míchel before the press.

“We have achieved a promotion that Girona deserved”, he stated at the end of the match.

"Girona is immortal, it always gets up".

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