Despite the fact that in recent times he was in the doldrums, as he himself recognized in his presentation, The signing of Adalberto Peñaranda, on loan from Watford, generated expectations consistent with his past great performance in Spanish football. They have to give a good account of it Malaga and Granada, where so pleasant memory left.
The Venezuelan attacker happens to be one of Pepe Mel's favorite footballers, who had such a high esteem since the preseason. In fact chained five titles in a row in the league start, starting from the start against Valladolid, Girona, Huesca, Mirandés and Ibiza. It was substitute against Burgos and last Saturday against Ponferradina, when Las Palmas added a victory four games later (the previous one, 2-1 against Huesca on the third match).
And went Precisely before the Berciano team when Adalberto Peñaranda was all the decisive thing that was assumed at the beginning of the season. Starting again from the bench, in minute 19 he received the order from Pepe Mel to jump onto the pitch for the newly injured Pejiño, and barely 240 minutes later he stood alone in front of Amir, impossible without the delight of a long pass thrown by Jonathan Viera, to make it 2-0, ultimately decisive, since Medina's last free-kick goal was useless.
After the flashes of the preseason, Peñaranda was defeated in the seventh, no longer under the pressure of seeing the goal. The Venezuelan striker, most used in Las Palmas stuck to the lime, preferably on the left wing, with a changed leg, accumulates at the moment 5 starts in 7 games for a total of 463 minutes played, 1 goal and 1 assist. It is, for now, the 5th most used footballer by Mel after Raúl Fernández and Ferigra, who accumulate full minutes (630), Lemos (585) and Jesé (473).
The good performances of Peñaranda, endorsed with the goal scored last Saturday, made it included in the preliminary list of 50 footballers from which the 23 with whom Venezuela will face the triple commitment of October against Brazil, Ecuador and Chile will come out. If I passed this screen he would miss three league games, including the derby against Tenerife.