UD Las Palmas will return to training this Wednesday before the match against Villarreal CF on Saturday in the 20th Liga match against UD Las Palmas. In Last October, Villarreal’s goal came in injury time (1-2), that is, like those received in the last matches of the yellow team against Athletic Bilbao or FC Barcelona.
The then coach of Villarreal CF, Pacheta, introduced new things to the starting eleven as Ben Brereton started and Manu Trigueros repeated. New variants where the Burgos technician I wanted to dominate the game and successfully locate the enemy’s objective. Villarreal were vertical when Coco sparked the game with an industrial goal and the second was from the penalty.
The canary yellow team must win this match because what awaits them in The first weeks of January and February 2024 are a test. They have challenges such as setting their defensive agenda against clubs, all of them, that are above the qualifying table except Villarreal CF. Villarreal’s visit is remembered The victory of UD Las Palmas in October at La Cerámica by 1-2.
Both teams arrived at a bad time for that match on matchday 28 of the 2017-18 season, in Villarreal’s case after three consecutive defeats. After a goalless first half, a hard shot from Carlos Bacca opened the scoring after hitting the crossbar. The Colombian managed to get a penalty but he had no goal and the penalty didn’t come until injury time, when Gálvez brought down Sansone and the Italian scored the penalty.
In that match they played for local Chichizola; Míchel Macedo (Nacho Gil), Galvez, Ximo Navarro, Aguirregaray; Halilovic, Etebo (Benito), Vicente Gómez, Tana; Erik Expósito (Momo) and Jonathan Calleri.
Sergio Asenjo did it on behalf of the Canarians; Rukavina, Bonera, Álvaro, Jaume Costa (Adrian Marin); Fornals, Rodrigo Hernández, Manu Trigueros, Roberto Soriano Raba (Sansone) and Bacca (Samu Castillejo).
That victory ended a streak of three ‘groguetas’ visits without a win in Las Palmas, a run of losses and a draw.
Villarreal made their debut at UD Las Palmas field in the Primera with an initial visit before that three games without a win. It was in the 2000-01 season and Víctor Muñoz’s team won 1-5 with a double from Jorge López and Bruno Marioni and a final goal from Javi Gracia.
Source: La Verdad
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