Maximum confidence in the UD dressing room: «If we win in El Toralín, we play the playoff»
Union in training in Barranco Seco. /
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The squad is convinced of knocking Ponferradina down in a field with good precedents and hitting the table
No one should ever give UD Las Palmas up for dead, always capable of the worst but also of the best. The yellow story says that she never gives up and lives devoted to suffering. And, when everything indicated that he was succumbing and that he would spend the final stretch of the competition between reluctance and lack of motivation, he reached the battle of El Toralín just four points behind Ponferradina, a rival that currently marks the frontier of the promotion playoff .
Confidence at the club and inside the locker room is maximum, knowing that the triumphs at home to the mighty Valladolid (0-1) and in Gran Canaria against Leganés (4-2) catapult morale and ambition.
The Sports Union shook off its lethargy and took the pressure offafter practically seeing how he said goodbye to his options after the painful defeat at the Siete Palmas venue against Girona (1-3).
But the yellow squad resurfaced once again to re-engage in the fight. And in the heart of Gran Canaria they have it absolutely clear. There is not even half an ounce of doubt.
“If we win in El Toralín, we will get into the promotion playoff”, confess club sources, while admitting that everyone knows that “it is the most important game of the season”.
"It's the most important game of the season"
The template is clear. What's more, he knows that so far in 2022 he has achieved more wins away from the archipelago than at home. And these two victories in a row, with a very good game and the maturity of a candidate for everything, guarantee that the climb to the elite is still possible.
“If we beat them, they collapse. They are not going to withstand the pressure of having us behind, ”they insist in the locker room.
In addition, the precedents also throw encouragement.
Las Palmas, in the last two visits to Ponferrada, do not know what it is to lose. In fact, counts a win (0-2) and a draw (0-0). And that's not all, because of the last four clashes between the two teams, the baggage clearly favors the islanders, since they do not know the defeat against the Bierzo team, not even at the Gran Canaria Stadium (3-0 and 2-0). Before, the
ponfe percussed in Second Division B.
At the same time, Ponferradina accumulates a negative streak of five wins without knowing the taste of victory. His last win now dates back to February 20, more than a month ago, when he was able to beat Sporting de Gijón at El Molinón (2-3).
Everything that came after was muddy for the Bierzo team, with four draws and one defeat, adding only four points out of a possible 15. He punctured in the field of bottom team Alcorcón (2-2); then he also lost in El Toralín against Paco Jémez's Ibiza (1-1); in Malaga he did not do better either (0-0); he stumbled against Eibar, who played with one player less, at home (2-2) and last day he fell horribly in Miranda de Ebro against Mirandés (3-1).
While,
in the yellow house the smile looks like power. The two wins in a row, adding six points out of a possible six, means that Las Palmas has to move to Ponferrada with morale through the roof and aware that everything is at stake. But that he goes with less nerves than the local and knowing that the numbers and precedents also bring a certain dose of serenity to UD.
On top of that, García Pimienta seems to have found the key. With the doubt of whether he will continue to support
Coconut in the starting eleven or bet on the seniority of
Raul Navasand also with
the mystery of Moleiro, Clemente or Benito on the left side, the alignment seems more than evident.
He is not going to touch what works, as he did after assaulting Pucela. Except for surprise in the form of injury, Valles, Lemos, Eric, Cardona, Mfulu, Kirian, Viera, Jesé and
sadiku they are fixed. AND
the Albanian striker arrives with a loaded shotgun and wanting more blood.
This UD never gives up and even less will it do so knowing that the victory in Ponferrada could mean being in the promotion promotion when everything is over.
