The last visit of UD Las Palmas to the Vallecas Stadium in the First Division, eight years ago, was a 2-0 defeat that created a schism in the locker room with the words of Aythami Artiles at the conclusion of the match when trying to send a message to the booth to leave aside Setién’s tiki-taka. The coach took charge of the matter, spoke with the team and finally the permanence was achieved.
Las Palmas returns to Payaso Fofó street this Saturday after eight years of absence in which both teams do not meet in the highest category of national football. The yellow team returns to a fiefdom in which the foundations of the team coached by Quique Setién faltered momentarily, but at the same time, whatever fate acted, it served to make the locker room believe in an idea that took two more days to come to fruition. after losing 2-0 against Rayo Vallecano.
That Saturday, February 6, 2016, the two goals of the Madrid team meant that a bomb was planted in the yellow booth.with the intention of dynamiting the tiki-taka script with which Setién arrived on the Island and which still did not offer flattering verses to maintain the category.
Miku (2′) and Baby (73′) put Unión Deportiva in the hole. If the yellow team arrived in Vallecas two places above the relegation zone after having beaten Celta 2-1 the previous day, the defeat against Rayo sent them to the penultimate place and with the feeling that the charter virus was more that inoculated in the insular morality.
I couldn’t win Las Palmas away from Gran Canaria Stadium nor giving all possible prayers to the Virgin of the Pine and with the absurdity experienced before the team led by Paco Jémez, another of those who practices the faith of tiki-taka, the team captain stood in front of the microphones to make a crack against the style.
Arguineguín raised his voice: «When you can’t play you have to be more efficient, “You have to shoot longer or play less back.” «The fact that the team is so open to losses means that they almost have a goal when we lose the ball and that cannot happen. “If we want to save ourselves we have to be stronger defensively and that means being smarter when it comes to playing the games.”
“We have to be self-critical, we can’t go out into the countryside as if we were on the couch at home,” he exclaimed.
«You have to do self-criticism. We cannot go out into the countryside as if we were on the couch at home. “They can’t score us those goals as soon as we start,” continued the center back, who also had an impact on changing the ship’s course away from the Island: “What we have to do away from home, above all, is to be stronger defensively, play less and be more correct.”
The pivotal ‘Flaco’
All this after SEtién gave him a coach attack and it occurred to him to place Juan Carlos Valerón in the pivot position in the 4-1-4-1 system that was beginning to acquire the necessary automatisms that subsequently resulted in a streak of six wins in seven games.
Of course, with Roque Mesa discovering that he was going to become one of the six most outstanding in the final stretch of the season.
After attempt to Aythami for messing with clothes With his message, came a week of confidences in Barranco Seco so that the entire group was united and believed in the philosophy.
Thus, the Cantabrian responded to the doubts that were created about the breakup of the team and the coach in the prior to the clash against Sevilla. «Neither Aythami nor anyone questions the way of playing, there are things in which he is right, but he cannot say them publicly at a delicate moment. Even so, we have talked with the locker room and he and I in private and everything has been clarified,” said the man from Santander.
2024-01-17 00:01:06
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