UD Las Palmas panics (0-1)

Borja Sánchez’s goal in the second half (72′) on almost the only occasion for Álvaro Cervera’s team, a master at unhinging UD, It came after a shot to the crossbar by Sergi Cardona and before another shot to the crossbar, this one by Moleiro, punished without playing until the yellows did not go below on the scoreboard. Las Palmas deserved something more than zero points only because of occasions and insistence, but in the same way that Belmonte took the victory with very little, the Carbayón team snatched it away on Easter Sunday with less, but their arguments were much more solid and convincing. A first part thrown and running in the second; too great a concession at this point. And with Granada and Levante on the horizon.

Dock

He changed the eleven again Garcia Pepperwho in Albacete found that saving something on the bench for the second parts it could bear fruit, as it did. For this reason, and not because Álvaro Jiménez and Marc Cardona had a superlative performance at the Belmonte, Moleiro and Pejiño waited their turn from the bench, like Marvin, in which case it is no longer surprising: it is only valid as a shock. Instead, Sergi Cardona returned to the left side for Enrique Clemente and Loiodice to the interior for Kaptoum; both changes were sung.

It was difficult for UD to enter the game, whose initial approach of touch and touch without depth He facilitated the defensive task of Oviedo, equipped in his area with a defensive line of five men and who exercised with great skill the task of putting pressure on the yellow players at midfield in order to steal and go on the counter. With nine casualties and in the stadium of the second classified, there was little more noble he could do. 20 minutes passed without anything happening other than the realization that Las Palmas had no depth, did not shoot on goal and lacked ideas to harm the rival.

occasions

Maybe that’s why he tried another alternative: long balls behind the defense in search of the strikers’ unchecking, and that was how he finally began to create danger. Loiodice, the best in the first half, sent a perfect ball into Sandro’s career, who had exchanged positions with Marc Cardona, and the man from Gran Canaria let it run until he had a good shooting angle, however, his execution was good, It came to nothing because Braat parried the shot with his feet (22′).

UD had finally created a scoring chance, which woke up the sleepy crowd. Shortly after, a good yellow combination ended in a shot by Sergi Cardona with his right foot, loose, into the hands of the Oviedo goalkeeper, and after half an hour a new ball above the grass again generated danger, this time through a reject that Marc picked up to then reach the end line and center. The play did not end there: the ball was picked up on the other side by the full-back, handed to Sandro and he looked for the goal with a classic shot from his team, looking for the squad from afar. What he found was heaven (36′).

see, thick

Nothing was known about Oviedo in attack except for a race that Sergi Cardona lost with Viti, the winger sacrificed to act as a winger and thus form the defense of five. His cross did not serve much more than for his team to take a breath before the break, which was reached after Jonathan Viera, once again thick and far from his best version, although willful and active, shot high when he saw himself without resources (39′).

The feeling, once again, was that UD had let the first part go by, that they had taken it without anguish, with a certain relaxation knowing that they would barely suffer in their goal and that they would have the ball. Bad business, because he would only have 45 minutes ahead to win. The usual thing happened: García Pimienta realized that the right wing needed more bite, so Marvin came on the right side for Álex Suárez. Not even today, before an Oviedo locked up and diminished by casualties, did he think that the player on loan from Real Madrid had a place from the start.

Intensity

It took the yellow team almost a quarter of an hour to realize that one of the keys, if not the only key, was to increase the intensity that they had decided not to impose in the first act. Sandro and Coco, from a distance, looked for the goal with two shots that did not carry much danger, but served at least to show that the intention was more ambitious. The striker on loan from Huesca, the most incisive, combined once again with Viera and shot again from outside the area, this time near Braat’s right post. The insistence was total, however, in the same way that the UD pushed forward, it left more gaps behind, and that’s why Cervera’s team found some way to breathe through touch, not the bell. Then it would come. Soccer.

before, just afterGarcía Pimienta will take 68 minutes to make two more changes, Pejiño for Álvaro Jiménez and Kaptoum for Loiodice –the second, unless the Frenchman was touched, nobody understood-, Sergi cardona crashed the ball into the crossbar with a great shot from outside the area in the rejection of a corner. No one waited for the outcome, once again sad for UD, which at least was closer to the goal.

goal and nerves

But since football is what it is, the one who was furthest from him was the one who achieved it, although not in a way that Oviedo had not already warned. Viti, the best of his team, once again won a sprint race, this time at Marc Cardona, reached the bottom line, entered the area and gave the goal to Borja García with a low pass through the huge gap left by Sidnei, stiff, and Coco. Shot at an empty goal, 0-1 and nerves everywhere (72′).

Now yes, in 74′, Moleiro entered the scene, through Marc Cardona, and the first thing he left behind was a huge shot from outside the area that hit Braat’s crossbar (78′), again saved by his own goal. Bad luck was definitely on the side of UD, who, although they did not know how to manage the game as a whole, did not deserve to lose either, at least by sticks and chances.

However, the game once again left something to be desired; Just as an example, in the 22 minutes that Las Palmas had to look for the tie, the only thing left was the shot from Tenerife. The rest of the time passed between unsuccessful individual attempts to enter the area, crosses that were received as gifts by the Oviedo defenders and poorly decided and executed shots. All wrong. And a missed opportunity. And the panic to rise.

Incidences: matchday 35 of LaLiga SmartBank played at the Gran Canaria Stadium in front of 20,091 spectators. In the run-up, a minute’s silence was observed for the death of Ladislao Velasco Martínez, honorary president of the Las Palmas Referees Technical Committee, and Jonathan Viera received a commemorative shirt for his 250 official matches with UD Las Palmas.