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Montilivi puts on his best clothes again to live a playoff duel for the third consecutive season (Follow today’s game live on As.com). An insistent Girona will try to start in the best possible way a promotion promotion that has become an ordeal for an Eibar who has been forced to take the long way to try to seal a goal that slipped out of his hands on the last day of the League. Garitano has had the mission of recovering his squad from the setback suffered in Alcorcón in record time and it is that the playoff will not wait for anyone. The wounds must be healed. Counter to zero and Girona and Eibar meet in a 180-minute tie to reach the final.
Girona comes to this first round with the experience of knowing that a playoff is a race to sprint but four games. Although before looking to the future it is time to carve out a present. Míchel will recover his 5-3-2 that put the rojiblanco team in flight when they were in relegation on matchday 12 and catapulted them towards the playoffs. Juanpe would return to the rear of three central defenders with Santi Bueno and Bernardo and the question is whether Borja García and Iván Martín are recovered. Both are doubt, so Samu Saiz is the one who has the most numbers to accompany top scorer Stuani in attack. In the core, few doubts: Pol Lozano, Aleix García and Baena.
In these games there is no room to hide and less so in a Montilivi in which first the teams are expected to be received and then everything will be ready to try to carry a Girona that arrives in better dynamics and more liberated than Eibar. The response of the gunsmith block after falling in Alcorcón and saying goodbye to direct promotion is unknown and hence the plan of the Girona party is to go to bite from the beginning so that Eibar cannot raise its head. Though that’s when footballers like Stoichkov and Edu Expósito will have to appear.
Despite the emotional blow, Eibar starts as favorites in this tie and hopes that the Ipurua factor will be essential for the second leg. Therefore, they must come out alive imposing their style and being faithful to the game that has led them to be leaders for so many days of the championship. There are no craving radical changes in Garitano’s scheme and neither in terms of names. The injuries of Javi Muñoz and Óscar Sielva reduce a midfielder from Eibar where Aketxe could enter. The precedents between the two teams are encouraging for the armory team, since they won both games in the regular season, both in Ipurua by 4-2 and in Montilivi by 0-1.