Las Palmas de García Pimienta presents its candidacy for the ‘playoff’

The UD Las Palmas defeated this Monday by 4-2 CD Leganes and is placed four points away from a promotion playoff from which the Madrid team is moving away, which despite scoring first saw how its rival came back with three goals before the break, which ended up being decisive in the final score.

The pepinero team, with significant casualties, changed its tactical drawing, starting with two strikers and took advantage after a lack of Ruben Pardo which repelled the barrier, but Cissé’s subsequent shot landed on the boots of Qasmi to mark in correct position.

It was, paradoxically, the worst thing he could do. Leganes because until then the game was dormant and the yellow reaction was immediate and withering, with a combination play to tie, and a corner kick and a penalty to turn the score around.

Sadiku he equalized in a center forward position after an assist from Álvaro Lemos and, shortly after, in a short corner, the ball arrived outside the area to Kirian, very alone, whose crossed shot was unattainable for Dani Jiménez.

A slap from Cissé to Kirian himself inside the area was punished as a penalty, converted by Jonathan Vera shot right through the center of the goal, at mid-height.

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With the game already very uphill, Leganés tried to get back on track with changes in the second half and seemed to get back on track with a goal that had to be reviewed in the WHEREafter a shot of Javier Hernandez to the stick and bounce on Álvaro Lemos of a ball that ended up over the goal line, despite the fact that Valles tried to get it out.

However, the team Mehdi Nafti The same thing happened to him as in the first half. And it is that her joy was ephemeral because Sadiku He rescued Las Palmas again by sending the ball into the net after a save by Dani Jiménez from a header by Maikel Mesa.

This confirmed the third victory of the Gran Canarian team with Javier garcia pepper on the bench, and first at home, where they had not won since last December, a victory that allows the islanders to keep intact their aspirations of reaching sixth place, which is four points away from the Ponferradinawhich he will visit next Sunday.

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