Las Palmas smells like a goal

One of the hallmarks of the palms is the possession, the one that more than the category, just ahead of the Ibiza, this weekend’s rival. This fact is associated internally in soccer as an offensive characteristic and it is that, as Saúl said yesterday at a press conference “we are a team that proposes”. Something that joins the number of shots he makes, third highest shooter of the season.

The league started with the yellows on the back of possession and the goal as the main feature. Growing until reaching what would be the peak of the season, third place. At the end of the first third of the season after getting their first win away from home, Mel’s pupils were the third highest scorers in the category and the seventh highest scorers on goal. They had also scored in eleven of the fourteen games played.

However, the break came. Winter came and as if it were an avocado farm, the scoring production of Las Palmas fell. From that peak in early November to its trough in mid-March, in the match against Girona, he went from being the third top scorer in the category to being the sixth from bottom.

Las Palmas had lost its sense of smell and with it the fight side by side with sixth place. Paradoxically throughout this stretch, he worsened his aim but improved his shooting numbers. They were the third in Second who shot the most when before they were seventh. Only Valladolid and Almería, two priests of the Second Division, shot more on goal.

After hitting bottom, in fourteenth position, García Pimienta stirred up the squad. Sadiku would return to the attack and began to demand Kirian’s contributionwith tints of Pigmalion. He needed goals and he needed players to take responsibility for it. “Kirian is having minutes and he is an important player because he practically always plays at the moment. And naturally he has to contribute much more. He is doing it and the team needs him to continue with that level, because he has the capacity and I think he is doing well “.

And the team began to respond to treatment. Since then it has become the top scoring team in the Second Division with ten goals, tied with Mirandés and Valladolid., averaging two per encounter. In addition, he has linked six consecutive games scoring. The season high is at nine games, from October 24 to December 12.

A) Yes, Las Palmas has once again brought out its essence, the goal. And with the goal he has turned green again in a fight for sixth place that, as history said, no one has managed to save such an advantage at the heights at which he was after falling to the Girona.