Today is the day!. The Las Palmas Sports Union measured again at C.D. Tenerife. This time forced to win the most important derby in history. The two representatives of Canarian football are playing for a place in the final for promotion and the Gran Canaria team will have to come back.
Last Wednesday, the Blue and Whites won 1-0 with a goal from Enric Gallego. This Saturday, those of Ramis will live a different meeting. A final where the Gran Canaria stadium will live a historical record, in which they hope that 32,400 throats will lift the Viera, Jesé, Vallés and company to reach glory.
Repeating the result is enough for Pimienta’s men, who were above (4th) their greatest rival (5th). Yellow 21 already said it. «I see a lot of party here. Today I see a lot of parties and it seems good to me… but we are waiting for you on Saturday in Gran Canaria with our people, it will be a totally different game. Ninety minutes in Gran Canaria are very long.
The fans will have the first word. UD Las Palmas has summoned the yellow fans at 6:10 p.m. on Calle Fondos del Segura to encourage the players who will pass through the aforementioned street at that time before entering the stadium.
Pepper: “The second leg will be different”
The coach of the UD Las Palmas, Xavi Garcia Pepperhas reiterated his conviction that the yellow team will overcome this Saturday C.D. Tenerife and will access the grand final for promotion to LaLiga Santander because “they know” what they have to do and they are going to “get it”.
The Catalan coach has said in a telematic press conference that they need a goal.
“We don’t know when it will arrive, but it will arrive” to equalize the 1-0 of the first leg, played last Wednesday, a result that would be worth them at the end of a hypothetical extension.
Pimienta expects a game “different” from Heliodoro. It will be “another movie”, fundamentally because it will be played in a Gran Canaria Stadium “that is almost going to bend” in number of spectators to the 19,000 who went to the blue and white coliseum, with a “dedicated hobby” that will “carry them on wings”.
García Pimienta did not want to assess the controversy over the statements made by the yellow captain, Jonathan Viera, at the end of the first leg, when he said: “I see a lot of party here, and it seems good to me, but we are waiting for you on Saturday at Gran Canaria , they don’t know what awaits them”, addressing the yellow fans gathered in the stands of the Heliodoro.
Pimienta has also said that Tenerife is a team with a “clear hallmark” in the defensive aspect, that of committing “a lot of fouls”but he has trusted that the appointed referee, the Basque González Esteban, will not allow this strategy of the Blue and Whites.
“I knew what Tenerife’s virtues were, they cut the game a lot and went on the counterattack, but our players are convinced that things are going to turn out well and I’m aware of what I have to do tomorrow to win the game”, he underlined. .
Now, after analyzing what happened on Wednesday, García Pimienta acknowledges that it was not “the best game” for the yellow team, also due to “the rival’s merits”, and although they had “72 percent possession”, they lacked “give speed of ball”, something that they will try to correct this Saturday to prevail to the eternal rival.
