Duel in Gran Canaria: UD Las Palmas host Valencia on Saturday with survival at stake

The UD Las Palmas will start this week, it started on Sunday, to prepare for the match next Saturday against Valencia CF at the Gran Canaria Stadium in LaLiga EA Sports with a training session where the yellow team will practice having the ball and dominating the game with short and accurate passes.

The yellow technical team does not trust at all to have a certain advantage over competitors under the classification and Its purpose is simply to unite itself with the First. Against UD Las Palmas, Valencia only had Fran Pérez and Peter Federico as pure wingers, although on other occasions they were both Selim Amallah like Javi Guerra can act for the band

The coach of UD Las Palmas, Xavi García Pimentagoing step by step looking to ensure permanence based his game on the mantra of hit the opponent high and recover losses as soon as possible. UD Las Palmas aims to create scoring opportunities through combinative and wing play. During the Quique Setién era, UD Las Palmas won 3 games out of 25 in the second round.

Injuries to Sergi Canós on January 20 against Athletic Club and to Diego López on Saturday against Almería could lead to the debut of the Dominican Hispanic winger at the Gran Canaria Stadium. Peter Federicowho was called up for the match against Almería although he did not play.

The footballer on loan from Real Madrid came to warm up on the Mestalla pitch and Now he can get his first chance against UD Las Palmas this coming Saturdayalthough it all depends on whether the technician Rubén Baraja He provides continuity in the right-handed position inside Javi Guerra, who usually plays in the middle.

with whom He will not play against UD Las Palmas, the Valladolid player will be joined by Asturian Diego Lópezwho left Mestalla in an ambulance this Saturday and will undergo surgery in the coming days of fracture of the left zygomatic bone that he suffered in the battle against Almería.

strengthened Valencia. The sports director of Valencia, Miguel Angel Coronainsisted on Monday that the club had made “a terrible financial effort” to sign Sevilla forward Rafa Mir, but that “the serious and professional thing is that if there is an agreement it should be put on paper and did not come to change.”

Corona, in a press conference after performance by Dominican Hispanic winger Peter Federicoemphasized that “out of respect” for the club they could not continue negotiations after Sevilla changed the conditions and said that the values ​​”have never” changed “so much” between a verbal agreement and the written

So, Corona emphasized that they only tried to conduct “one operation” in the last days of the marketthat of Rafa Mir, where they will make enormous economic efforts, because they have “a lot of interest in grow in sports by maintaining the economy.”

“We have a lot of problems in maintaining costs but, however, with the salary adjustment of the past you can seeor we have a template that is fun to see“said the Valencia sports director.

Asked if he would try again Rafa Mir He will join Valencia next summer, commenting that he cannot answer that, especially knowing “how it happened in the two previous seasons”, but he stressed that they made “two efforts” for him, in the summer and in February, and that ” There is no more show of effort than an agreement” with Mir.

For Corona, Valencia can “continue to compete as before” despite Paulista’s departure, because it trusts in stabilization of Cristhian Mosquera and the arrival of Diakhaby: “We are optimistic about this group of players who give us so much joy every week and it is a joy to see.”

“Paulista’s situation is not from this winter, but from June 2023. With Gabriel Paulista we started talks to try the transfer, to find maintenance and maintain a competitive team and when that opportunity arose, we took it“stressed Corona, who nevertheless confirmed that the good level given by the Brazilian in recent months in Valencia was “clear”.

Also, when asked by Selim Amallah, he said that his continuation was not related to entering Europe and about the winger Carlos Vicente, who went to Deportivo Alavés In this winter market, he emphasized that the footballer has a “desire” to play in the First Division “as soon as possible” and that they cannot carry out his signing in the first days of January.

Finally, when asked by If Valencia have to sell players before June 30said that he still does not know, but in any case “there are previous markets where he has set a demand figure and it has not been met”, so he cannot set a monetary figure on sales from when It also depends on the final classification.