Gran Canaria: where an ascent escaped may be salvation

Six years later of staying six minutes from being promoted to the First Division, Real Zaragoza returns to the stadium of Gran canaria with the firm intention of taking an almost definitive step towards his salvation. The Aragonese team has more than six months immersed in a desperate race for the permanence and four days before the end of the championship, it yields visit yet stage where it presents favorable numbers, with a balance of two victories, two draws and two defeats, the second of them in the fatal second leg of the 'playoff' of the 2014-15 season.

A triumph this saturday would be a He passed practically decisive for Zaragoza, which maintains an income of three points of advantage over the border of the decline, and that you have to receive next in La Romareda to Castellón, a direct rival, before taking on Mallorca and Leganés in the last two days. The Sports Union Las Palmas, with 50 points, that's it saved, a circumstance that Juan Ignacio Martínez's team hopes to take advantage of to end a four-game winless streak (a loss in Gerona and three ties against Sporting, Lugo and Espanyol).

Throughout its history, the Real Saragossa He has only visited the Unión Deportiva Las Palmas in six matches from Second division, one in the defunct Insular stadium and five in the Gran Canaria stadium, inaugurated on May 8, 2003. The meeting of the Insular, disputed in the campaign 2002-03, was settled with a triumph by the minimum, with a goal from Yordi, one of the great architects of the promotion that year, along with Cani, Láinez, Aragón and Soriano.

Already in the stadium Gran canaria, Zaragoza tied to two so many in its first visit in Second in the 2008-09 academic year, with goals from the Argentine Caffa and the Brazilian Ewerthon, a great scorer of that year also with promotion. And in this last and long period in the silver category there have been the following results: 0-1 (Roger) in 2013-14, 5-3 in 2014-15, 1-1 (Álvaro Vázquez) in 2018-19 and 0-1 (Javi Ros) last season.