Valladolid and Celta take a step towards the final ascent

The new system makes the competition in second this time of year to continue looking at the Silver category with interest, because even have to know which team will complete along with Real Betis and Rayo Vallecano the trio of newly promoted to the top flight. There are four candidates: Elche CF, Real Valladolid, Granada CF, Celta de Vigo. And two of them have already taken advantage in the first leg of the semifinal play-off, which has been played this week: beat Valladolid Celta and the minimum at Granada and Elche, respectively.

The first game was on Wednesday, Balaídos, where Celtic and Granada took too many precautions. Michu's goal in the absence of a quarter to the end gave the victory to the Vigo, this Saturday (ie tomorrow) return visit to the group led by Fabri. In the first leg, Granada was without Alex Geijo, one of the most crucial players (he has scored 24 goals in the Championship II), and probably in Los Cármenes hispanosuizo striker is not the initial starting problems shoulder. This condition for the meeting and say that Geijo, with Dani Benítez, is a key part in the scheme of horizontal Atletico, who have been strong throughout the season in their stadium but were unable to beat the Paco Herrera in the regular phase.

In the other semifinal, played on Thursday, striker Javi Guerra took advantage in his match against Valladolid Elche thanks to a header. Both teams will face each Sunday at the Martinez Valero, where in the final regular season match lived a little crazy in the Elche managed to tie in extremis with a man down. Not be ruled out to be alive another finale, but it all depends on how to reach each other the last mile.

In Football Notes will continue pending the outcome of the play-off and once the two finalists are known, we will look a little closer the tie that decides everything, which will take place between Wednesday and Sunday of next week. It will, also, a duel over two legs, the leg in the field of the lowest ranked team in the regular phase. We'll see how is the final, but first you have to know their players. Then discuss the new competition format to know what you think about it, but wait to know what clubs will definitely fight for promotion.

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