UD Las Palmas surprised at home against an Albacete team that fulfilled the idea of the match perfectly. He opened the scoring with a goal against Manu Fuster and saw how Pejiño equalized in the second half after Alberto Moleiro’s personal move. With five minutes remaining, Higinio received a rejection after Maikel Mesa missed a maximum penalty for the visiting team to add three important points to not lose the wagon of promotion. With this defeat, the men from Gran Canaria fell to the leadership of the Second Division.
The insular team, as usual, tried to gain possession as a guard to work in a game that needed to have a lot of patience. Rubén Albés said this in the previous one, “we know the plan will be useful”, and the team from La Mancha has executed it perfectly.
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He was the first to warn through Dubasin with a shot that had to be stopped by Álex Domínguez and, between Coco and Sidnei, they could not stop the Juanma García-Dubasin duo. The yellows also tried long shots in the early stages of the match with a Pejiño and Nuke Mfulu enjoying themselves with medium-distance shots.
The Brazilian central defender from Las Palmas, erratic in duels with the visiting striker, was the star of the first goal of the match. He lost a duel with Álvaro García in midfield and, on the counter, Maikel Mesa helped Manu Fuster so, inside the area, he beat Álex Domínguez with a low shot on the right. Referee Busquets Ferrer waited for VAR as he had initially signaled offside, but Areces Franco from the VAR room corrected the main referee so he could put the goal on the scoreboard.
Albacete dominated and their game plan did not change. The goal suited the visiting team better in the early moments, who on the counterattack again warned a one-on-one from Maikel Mesa, although now offside was indicated. He had to change Las Palmas, especially in offensive triangulations, if he wanted to change the course of the match and attack the lead.
Based on long shots and passing speed, the Canarian team gradually adjusted for the better. Pejiño played more on the left and Álvaro Lemos on the right, added to Alberto Moleiro’s baton and Bernabé Barragán’s many more peeks outside the area. In one of them, Clemente stepped on the end line, put the pass behind and Marc Cardona got a bitten shot in the clearest for the locals in the first half.
The first half ended with Albacete in the rival field with a corner kick. Glauder finished, Domínguez made a save and VAR was again checked for a possible progression in the yellow area. Finally, Busquets sent Ferrer to the dressing room without further objection.
García Pimienta moved pieces at half-time, bringing on Vitolo for Álex Suárez and moving Álvaro Lemos to right-back. It didn’t take long. Vitolo, during a dribble, threw his hands to his face and, while crying, demanded a change while the fans gathered at the Gran Canaria Stadium gave him a loud applause. The Atlético de Madrid player had to stop again and, from his actions, it didn’t look good.
Andone was chosen to replace the winger and the Catalan coach from Las Palmas took over. Albacete did not know how to sustain the yellow attacking double duo and Bernabé Barragán’s goal threat was constant. And, at that very moment, the magic of Alberto Moleiro appeared.
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Albacete
The Palms: Alex Dominguez; Álex Suárez (Vitolo, min. 46) (Andone, min. 51), Saúl Coco, Sidnei (Eric Curbelo, min. 59), Sergi Cardona (Enrique Clemente, min. 59); Oscar Clemente, Mfulu, Moleiro; Álvaro Lemos (Álvaro Jiménez, min. 88), Marc Cardona and Pejiño.
Albacete: Barnabas; Álvaro Rodríguez (Juan María, min. 68), Boyomo, Olaetxea, Glauder, Julio Alonso; Maikel Mesa (Djetei, min. 89), Riki (Ros, min. 79); Juanma, Dubasin (Kawaya, min. 79) and Manu Fuster (Higinio, min. 68).
The objectives: 0-1 min. 14: Manu Foster. 1-1 min. 52: Pejino. 1-2 min. 84: Hyginus.
Referee: Mateo Busquets Ferrer (Balearic Committee). He showed yellow cards to local players Moleiro (31), Óscar Clemente (78) and Saúl Coco (82), and to visitors Riki (66), Julio Alonso (90) and Juan María (90 +3).
Incidents: The match on the twentieth day of LaLiga SmartBank was played this Sunday at the Gran Canaria Stadium with the presence of 17,415 spectators. A minute of silence was observed in memory of four members of the Rodríguez Rodríguez family from Gran Canaria, who recently died in a traffic accident in Romania.
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The midfielder from Tenerife dribbled through three opponents to leave it open to Pejiño, who with the first touch put it beyond the Albacete goalkeeper.
Rubén Albés also moved the bench giving entry to Juan María and Higinio, but he did not improve in three quarters of the field. Shortly after, in the 75′, Enrique Clemente, coming from behind and bouncing early, made Bernabé Barragán work hard to make it 2-1.
One of Albés’ changes tipped the balance. Higinio stole the ball from Eric Curbelo as he left the ball and when he was about to face Álex Domínguez, Coco caught him, knocking him down and signaling the maximum penalty. The island goalkeeper caught Maikel Mesa’s shot from eleven meters, as well as the rebound from the player from Tenerife himself, but he could not handle the third shot, the work of Higinio, and caused ‘Alba to take the lead again ‘ in Gran Canaria.
Unión Deportiva did not lose confidence, however, they were unable to open the wall of Albacete to add even one point that would allow them to continue at the top of the LaLiga Smartbank table.
Source: La Verdad
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