UD Las Palmas: the yellows are looking to generate continued excitement for Getafe

UD Las Palmas directed by García Pimienta This Friday, he will be looking to maintain the rhythm at home to face December as he did before his match against Alavés on December 9. Las Palmas and Getafe are like night and day, football-wise, and the clash of styles – as cliché – can be seen in the conflict that The fifteenth day of LaLiga EA Sports opens this Friday at the Gran Canaria Stadiumalso at the beginning of the last competitive month of 2023.

Positions. Las Palmas (11th, 18 points); Getafe (8th, 19 points). Las Palmas know that they will have a wall to break in front of them, but one that is supported by the numbers: eight matches and 67 days without defeat, with the last defeat on September 24 against Real Sociedad (4-3) . Las Palmas must be patient to dismantle their rival’s defensive frameworkand Getafe, success and strength to take advantage of the space behind the local defense.

Las Palmas and Getafe only They have met twice in the First Division at the Gran Canaria Stadium. The first, in the 2015/16 season, ended with a local victory (4-0); The second in 2017/18, Getafe won (0-1) with a goal from Ángel Rodríguez. Furthermore, Las Palmas is, along with Cádiz, the lowest scoring team in LaLiga EA Sports, but it is also the third with the fewest goals scored, after Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid.

Each has his weapons, neither better nor worse, antagonistic in any case, possession of the ball for the yellows and many orders and exits in the counterattack of the bluesboth teams have done very well in this first round of the league, which is inevitably approaching its halfway point.

Separated by a point in favor of the people of MadridGetafe and Las Palmas are closer to Europe than the relegation places, a situation they certainly signed at the beginning of August.

The island team arrived after losing in Villamarín against Betis (1-0) in a match where they conquered the green and white team in the second half, but without success. And there certainly is one of these pending topicsthe lack of goals, only eleven in fourteen days.

Garcia Pimienta can use almost all of its playerswith the only exceptions of defender Álvaro Lemos, injured, and captain Jonathan Viera, due to a technical decision, in the controversial extra-sports matter that the Catalan coach still does not want to explain to the fans.

Neither team wants to hear about the European challenge. The main goal, in both cases, is safetybut the good moments of Getafe and Las Palmas invite their fans to think about bigger challenges.

Getafe, who have yet to win away from home, went on an eight-game unbeaten run after adding six draws and two wins, the last match day against Almería (2-1). The relegation places are distant, eleven points away, and sixth place, the continental last, is six points away.

If they want to stay in that European fight, Getafe will need to break their bad streak without a win away from home (they haven’t done so. since he visited Betis on matchday 36 since last year and has a total of eight matches without a win away from the Coliseum). Without getting points from three away games, the azulón team will be condemned to stay in the middle of the table.

For his eighth attempt on the course, José Bordalás will have three absences: the well-known long-term absences of Mauro Arambarri and Enes Ünal and the defender José Ángel Carmona, who withdrew from the clash against Almería the previous day with an extra strain on the hamstring of his left leg. His presence at the Gran Canaria Stadium is ruled out.

Carmona, almost the undisputed starter alongside Bordalás on the right side of midfield, will have two candidates to replace him: Óscar Rodríguez and Carles Aleña.

One of the two could be something new in the eleven of the Getafe coach, who will again compete with his two strongest men: Mason Greenwood and Borja Mayoral. The former scored a superb goal against Almería that started his team’s comeback and the latter capped it off with his eighth goal of the season in Liga to equalize Gerard Moreno as Spain’s best striker in the First Division.