Jonathan Viera signs fourth place for Las Palmas

A solitary goal by Jonathan Viera from a penalty is enough for a UD Las Palmas team that beat a Sporting de Gijón team that had nothing to play for. With this result, the Canaries enter the playoffs as fourth place and there will be a derby in the semifinals.

The crash started as expected. An insular team looking for long possessions and moving the Asturians from side to side, while Abelardo’s men waited behind for some against. This is how the first chance of the clash came with the cross shot that he tried Jose Luis Rodriguez ‘El Puma’ no major problems for Alvaro Valles.

Twice he had Rafael Mujica. The first went wide with everything to score the first, but he was in an offside position. In the second attempt he did score, but the referee, after calling the VAR, decided to annul it by hand in the control of the striker.

And, on the third approach, it was the charm. good combination of Moleiro and Viera to enter the area rober. Paul Garcia knocked him down and Tight Iglesias decided to award a penalty. Jonathan Viera was in charge of throwing it and transforming it to place the 0-1. It was UD Las Palmas’ turn to sleep off the game with even longer possessions.

In the second half there was no drastic change on the part of the two teams. those of Garcia Pepper they knew what match script they were interested in and Sporting, since nothing was at stake, was comfortable with such an equal income to try to catch an occasion that would put the equalizer.

Rafa Mujica was again offside after defining against Marine being the most important occasion for the canaries. Milovanov he was able to equalize for his team, but his shot went wide to the right of the goal defended by Valles.

With seven minutes added, before the whistles of the stands for dragging out a soporific match, Las Palmas achieved its goal and in an outstanding way. In addition, with the results given in the other fields, it is classified as fourth classified and will have home court factor in the first round.