UD Las Palmas returns to the First Division after five years to face its thirty-fifth season with the greats of Spanish football, and does so with a marked style of play, with nuances of Barça, driven by the coach of this, Xavi Garcia Pepperand the arrival of new footballers that the Catalan coach had at his command at La Masía.
The Pepper’s philosophywith football based on possession of the ball and high pressure in the rival field, not without risks, has paid off in the Second Division and now it only remains to see if the model will also work in the First Division.
A well tuned orchestra. Las Palmas retained the block that gave them promotion, and some of the signings that arrived, with the team still under construction, had the clear stamp of Pimienta: the right-back Julián Araujo, who loaned from FC Barcelona, the striker Munir El Haddadi, who he had in his youth in the Barça team, or the imminent inclusion of the left-handed central defender Mika Mármol (Andorra), who is also under of his leadership in Barcelona.
They are joined by Aarón Escandell (Cartagena), a goalkeeper who has a wonderful ball handling with his feet, an important quality to start the game from the back, as well as Javi Muñoz from Madrid, a midfielder who covers in many fields. .
has arrived too Christian Herrerawho returned to UD Las Palmas with numerous appearances in professional football since leaving the island, and left back Daley Sinkgraven, the first Dutchman in the club’s history.
In addition, Sports Union exercised the purchase option they had agreed with Huesca on the striker from Gran Canaria Sandro Ramírez, a key player in the last phase of last season, ending the promotion, another footballer with a Barça pastlike the also attacking Marc Cardona, who was taken by Pimienta last summer for the yellow goal.
The cast of players will be captained for another year by Jonathan Viera, the beacon that guides the yellow team, and decorated with the continuation of alberto moleirothe last jewel of the Canarian academy where Las Palmas, for now, does not have to sell, as it did during its time with the international. Peter.
After completing a good preseason, the only problem the yellow team experienced this summer was the injury to Fabio Gonzalezwho is recovering from an ankle injury that required him to undergo surgery, which could accelerate the arrival of another midfielder, as well as a center forward, to put the icing on the cake before the market closes.
Las Palmas will start at home against Mallorca, in a rivalry between the island’s teams, and the fickle fortunes I had a curiosity reserved for him in the calendar: will close the season in Gran Canaria against Deportivo Alavésin the same stadium and against the same rivals with whom he celebrated direct promotion on May 27, and also against whom he was mathematically relegated the last time he was in the First Division, in 2018.
Source: La Verdad
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