UD Las Palmas: The Pimienta project to unite sport, art and science is born

The coach of Las Palmas, Xavi Garcia Peppersaid this Friday before returning to the Canary Islands after the defeat against Valencia (1-0) that the yellow team made a great effort even though elements such as VAR gave oxygen to a penalty that generated the goal of defeat in the 72nd minute.

In his opinion, the team responds to his demands and the math says: possession of the ball: 38% (Valencia)- 62% (UD Las Palmas); Finishes: 9 – 7; Shots on goal: 4 – 1; Corners: 6 – 4; Fouls: 12 – 6. Dangerous attacks: 36 from Valencia, 32 from Las Palmas.

The triumvirate project of Miguel Ángel Ramírez, Luis Helguera and Xavi García Pimienta, respectively president, sports director and coach, has rolled into the First Division with the squad almost closed after the August arrival of Marvin Park from Real Madrid or Sory Kaba though there are possibilities of new names. In any case, Ramírez already said this summer that “the best signing for UD Las Palmas is their fans”.

“The team is paid with additions. I’m very happy with the way the squad looks so farif there is an option we will include it, there are still two weeks left in the market, but I think the workforce has been paid and we will grow,” said Pimienta.

For the match on Friday, August 25 with Real Sociedad, UD Las Palmas hopes to have available players like Sory Kaba, “with whom we won the potentially offensive with a big and strong striker,” he said. Regarding the development of LaLiga EA Sports, Pimienta said: “I will leave with the feeling that if we grow we will be very good but we need to generate more scoring chances because with this it doesn’t give us”, the yellow coach said after the match”.

He pointed out that “we don’t deserve to lose in any case but we lack depth” and after the experience of the first game of LaLiga EA Sports in the Peninsula, he added that “I don’t think we were low in Valencia. We need to be more upright and deeper and we lack punch”, he added.

UD Las Palmas returned from Valencia with the first defeat of the official season, losing 1-0 to the Mestalla team. The match had various phases of dominance and opportunity. Gran Canarias had their chances without being able to materialize in Mamardashvili’s nets. He The Gran Canaria team played its tricksbut with a better outlook in the second half, the winning goal in Valencia came via a penalty awarded by the VAR Room and confirmed by the match referee.

course. “There was a little change in the goal, a more offensive team was seen and in the coming ones, that’s the way. There were good attacking situations, but more situations must be developed, otherwise it will be it’s hard to score in this category”, added García Pimienta this Friday.

The Las Palmas coach, who said of the penalty that “nothing can be seen on the benchbut the VAR called the referee and his hand seemed to be outstretched, there is nothing more to say”, he appreciated that Julián Araujo gave them depth and played a great game like Benito in the last minutes.