The UD Las Palmas maintained sole leadership of LaLiga SmartBank after defeating Ponferradina 2-0 in another display of resilience at home for the team from Gran Canaria, who advanced a difficult match, with two goals in the final period, after missing the penalty in the first half and despite the absence in the last minute of Jonathan Viera.
the island group In this way, they keep their immediate pursuers, while the group from Berciano continues in relegation and is quite far from the zone of permanent, after the victory of Racing de Santander against Andorra.
Despite the significant loss of Viera due to the flu process, who was replaced in the starting eleven by Kaptoum, Las Palmas resolved the match in the last quarter of an hour, in just four minutes, with a goal from Sandro Ramírez and own goal from Paris Adot .
Pimienta’s team had to overcome the failure of an early penalty, with a careless demolition in the 11th minute by Pablo Amo of Loren, after poor control by the central defender in his area, but the striker from Marbella returned the gift a very focused shot. from eleven meters denied by Amir.
Before that game, the first dangerous approach was made by José Naranjo with a quick move, got behind Coco, but his left-footed shot stopped him below Valles.
It is one of the few arrivals of a team, that David Gallego, who reflects the field of distrust caused by his delicate classification, who quickly removed the ball from his back, without finding his most great players, like Gran Canarias Dani Ojeda and Edu Espiau, or Naranjo himself.
Las Palmas were unable to display the pace of the ball to exploit the visitors’ weakness and had no chance in the first half with Valles having to intervene again to clear a cross-kick from Naim in the 36th minute.
After a break, the island group began to destroy the wall of the increasingly submerged Ponferradina. García Pimienta made changes, and two of the incorporated players made the first goal, with a cross from Marvin that Pascanu failed to clear, and Sandro put the ball into a corner, after touching Paris Adot .
Both players were protagonists just four minutes later, with a free kick by Sandro hitting the body of the visiting winger, and the ball going into the back of the net to close the scoring, with no room for reaction for a Ponferradina who ended his bad end of the game with Diéguez’s own dismissal.
the palms
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ponferradina
the palms: Alvaro Valles; Álex Suárez, Saúl Coco, Eric Curbelo, Sergi Cardona; Loiodice (Fabio, min. 85), Mfulu, Kaptoum (Sandro, min. 62); Pejiño (Marvin, min. 71), Loren (Marc Cardona, min. 62) and Moleiro (Óscar Clemente, min. 86).
ponferradina: Amir; Paris Adot (Moi Delgado, min. 85), Pascanu, Amo, Adri Castellano; Dani Ojeda (Ale Díez, min. 80), Nwakali, Diéguez, Naim (Derik, min. 59); Naranjo (Yuri, min. 80) and Edu Espiau.
The objectives: 1-0, min.75: Sandro. 2-0, min.79: Paris Adot, own goal.
Referee: David Gálvez Rascón (Madrid Committee). He sent off visiting player Diéguez (m.91) with a straight red card for kicking Óscar Clemente from behind. In addition, he showed a yellow card to his teammates Naim (8), Adri Castellano (24) and Dani Ojeda (43), as well as local defender Saúl Coco (64).
Incidents: against the twenty-ninth day of LaLiga SmartBank played at the Gran Canaria Stadium in front of 20,474 spectators. Lola Ortiz Luque, Queen of the Carnival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2023, took the honor roll.
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Source: La Verdad
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