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The playoffs for promotion to
First
Division are cursed territory for
Girona
. Five times the Girona team has had the option of climbing to the top category of Spanish football through this system and five times they have been left with honey on their lips. Four of them, in the final. El
Rayo Vallecano
at the end, repeated the story written by
Almería
, the
Zaragoza
, in the
semifinals,
Osasuna
and
Elche
and it took the honey from the lips of a group that dreamed of repeating the feat achieved four years ago, when it made the great leap as second classified in the silver category. In the end, it was the Vallecano team that, with a hard-fought 0-2 victory, and with
one player less for forty minutes
, who was able to unleash their euphoria in Montilivi.
Rayo Vallecano jumped onto the grass with the knife between his teeth. As much as Girona seemed to have everything going for it, with
the 1-2 that he took from Vallecas
after surviving a barrage of play by the locals, he turned the tables in the first 45 minutes. And he did it with
Álvaro García
as the great protagonist of his offensive work. He, precisely, was in charge of opening the Montilivi scoreboard, overcoming with a subtle touch the desperate departure of the Girona team goalkeeper after standing absolutely alone in front of his domains before the first 10 minutes of play were completed.
Girona, disarmed at all times by the greater ambition of its rivals, only seemed to be able to take a break in the final stretch of the first half.
Then, a departure from Luca Zidane was in charge of perfectly disrupting an action that could have culminated in the equalizer for the locals.
Not long after, after a good internship by Álvaro García, it would be Rayo that would send the ball back to the back of the net.
In this case, with a play with too much suspense.
Trejo
, in the first half added and ultimately benefited by a defender's attempt in extremis to snatch the ball from him, put a 0-2 that unleashed euphoria on the visiting bench.
Lightning Survival
The team
Andoni Iraola
, emboldened by the perfect revenue that had brought him to the first 45 minutes of the match, had the opportunity to finally kill off
the final nothing back from the break, but met with an excellent response from
Juan Carlos
. Even more successful,
Luca Zidane
would be again shortly after
to derail a good opportunity for
Bárcenas
. Things, however, seemed to get terribly complicated for Rayo with the expulsion by double warning of Emiliano Velázquez, much protested by the visitors. The challenge, from that moment on, was to endure the practically 35 minutes that remained of regulation time.
It was useless for Francisco to risk everything for everything with the entrance to the pitch of Stuani and look for more presence in attack with
Antonio Luna
. El Rayo managed to make up for his numerical inferiority with pride and also tried to scratch the clock as much as he could in the substitutions. Girona, too overwhelmed by the rush, failed to find the key to find clear scoring chances. Or, at least, to haunt Luca Zidane's domain in serious danger. Although, however, he claimed a hand from a Rayista defender as a penalty that the referee considered as involuntary. The less was left on the timer, the more nerve-wracking the locals became. And that, in the end, led him to trip, again, with a stone with which he has already crashed five times.
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