The former yellow Juan Cala said a few seasons ago “if you have to lose points, let it be out.” And this maxim had been tattooed by the UD this season engraved on the forehead. Until Zaragoza arrived and took the first three-point booty from what could be called – with a certain somewhat inflated epic – the fortress of Gran Canaria. Especially for the height of the course.
However, nominal inflation or not, it was true that up to that game, he had played eight home games, won six and drawn two. And that was where the yellows settled a classification that reached third place a few days ago and where it settles its current position of promotion of promotion after just getting one of the last nine points, and that is that since day eight Las Palmas is among the first six.
The impressive streak that allowed him to climb from the fourteenth position of the fifth day to touch positions of direct promotions nine dates later, was solidified in the maxim of making good draws as a visitor with victories at home, the so-called English half.
Or at least to make defeats with Lugo’s a mere scratch that remained at home the next game. And it is that the yellow in that league section, from the fifth to the fourteenth day added 2.22 points per game per game. When his season average is 1.59.
A very good streak that happened just when many of those who had been starting were injured and had to take a step forward Kirian, Benito, Clemente, Fabio. In the middle of a very tight schedule, playing 6 games – with three displacement – in 21 days.
And just when the way seemed to clear, with the team looking more to second place than seventh, with a schedule with a weekly game and the return of Viera, two defeats came. Against Zaragoza and Málaga. The first time in the whole season that the yellows are beaten twice in a row, something that had not happened since May of last year.
However, they are defeats that were on the verge of not occurring. And that stand out for something in common. In both Las Palmas he swam to get to shore, because he actually made landfall. He did not hang around. In those two games, the yellows were below the scoreboard and in both they were able to knock down the door and draw at 67 – against Zaragoza – and at 77 – against Malaga.
However – logically because otherwise they would not have been defeats – in those last two matches, their rivals were able to undo those ties nine and thirteen minutes after the yellows put a foot in the sand, reaching the anticlimax for the Canarian fans.
So – and although the yellow players may enter a new phase in which they have lost the strength of the team outside the door – inside the kennel, Mel is clear, “we have a pattern of play with which we came to auction positions in different ways and with a criterion “and that system is the one that they will cling to because it was the same that led him to be third on matchday fourteen.
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