UD Las Palmas reached the end of LaLiga EA Sports with the same challenge since returning to the Primera: permanence as the only goal. Now the coach Xavi García Pimienta He said in December 2023 when the team continues to grow stronger: “the goal is that on May 27, 2024 this team will achieve permanence.” The fans trusted Pimi’s word because he fulfilled his promotion commitment on May 27, 2023.
When the team was on a roll in the islands, the yellow coach was considered too conservative when, in fact, he was as realistic as the first captain, Kirian Rodriguezwhich since the start of the championship has unsuccessfully requested that lower the tuning fork with the tune of the results, that at any moment a setback could destroy everything. And it is: a a cold winter of goals and a spring of almost fatal luck to achieve the last 40 survival points.
And from that conservative thesis that commands the patience of García Pimienta, who works 12 hours a day in Barranco Seco Sports City between training and match analysis, he does not move a centimeter even without lowering the his guard with gangrene of defeats only blocked. there are 180 minutes of games left in LaLiga EA Sports: against Cádiz this Sunday and Alavés next weekend, where the season closes. The same final sequence as when the promotion to the First Division: the Basque team as the protagonist.
Horizon. Regarding his future, Pimienta reiterated that “The most important thing now is what we are putting at risk, because the goal of permanence has not yet been met“.
In his opinion, His players give themselves one hundred percent, but it was not enough to score, with a streak of eight consecutive defeats in one of the club’s worst historical streaks in the First Division. “It’s never happened to me, eight losses in a row is very rare and no one wants to go through these moments”, acknowledged the coach of the yellow team.
Unity between the conductor and the yellow orchestra
Remains in the First Division, one point away
In the current 2023/24 season, Pimienta joins UD Las Palmas in the top category of Spanish football. Under his leadership, UD Las Palmas scored 126 goals and scored 94. Despite budget difficulties, it managed to keep up, a important goal for the club.
Also Pimienta implemented an attractive and offensive style of play at UD Las Palmasbased on ball possession and associative play that reappeared this week after the match against Real Betis (2-2), where the point break was sealed.
The Catalan coach has been praised for his management in the dressing room, his ability to promote young talent and his commitment to the club’s identity.
He miracle of the UD Las Palmas coach, with whom he has a contract until 2025 if a permanent one is achieved, has become a boss who has control over promotion in LaLiga, valuing youth players. When it was in the Second Division in the 2022-23 season, UD Las Palmas was the best visiting team, putting itself in direct promotion positions in 32 out of 42 games and leading the classification in 16 of them.
Source: La Verdad
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