Las Palmas, before its stress test: double exit to Eibar and Ibiza

Life has changed so much Las Palmas in four days as has happened to Ponferradina. If after matchday 31 Girona were far from the Canaries, 8 points plus the goal average, Ponferradina was also nine points. A distance that at this point in the competition no team in the history of the promotion has been able to cut.

But not only that, but also the aggravating circumstance of being in fourteenth position with seven rivals to overcome to stay, at least, at the gates. And if that was the scenario at the end of day 31, now that the 36 is facing, the board has flippedeither. Not only is Girona not the rival for that sixth place, but it is not even Ponferradina but Oviedo.

An improvement on the back of the ‘game by game’ that he announced as a town crier Alberto Moleiro in the previous against Valladolid. “What I think we have to change is not thinking so much about promotion, or getting into the playoffs. But to go game by game, removing a little that pressure that we have in the backpack”. And day by day, the yellows were gaining confidence and points. And furthermore, with the bump in Ponferradina, he has seen a paradigm shift in the Second, in which, in addition to Bercianos, Canarians and Asturians have slipped in for the fight for the last golden ticket.

Now the yellows face a double displacement, first Ipurúa and then Can Misses. A scenario that a priori would make the hair stand on end to a Canarian expedition, which traditionally chokes on exits from the island. Or at least, that is the perception.

However, the return to the sock with García Pimienta has brought about a change in this dynamic. Since the arrival of the Catalan coach, the Gran Canarians have won three of their five trips, losing only to Zaragoza. Averaging two points per game. Such has been the explosion as a visitor that since the arrival of the Barcelona coach, the yellows, after the victory of Tenerife last day, are placed as third best second.

However, this double start is going to put the Gran Canarians to the test because so far this year their rivals are unbeaten at home. Thus, the yellows will live their great litmus test with two starts at the best time in months and against two rivals who have not bitten the dust at home in 2022.