This tight schedule gave him a uneven league start to Las Palmas and Huesca. The first chain, all at once, games against the main ones, or three of them together with Eibar, candidates for promotion: Valladolid (1-1), Girona (0-0) and today against the Huesca team. Meanwhile, the boys from Ambriz, who released surreal excuses about the insular climate that only ridicule whoever pronounces them, took advantage of their first two stakes, both at home, to arrive as leaders after consecutively dispatch Eibar and Cartagena in El Alcoraz with the same result: 2-0.
With the rush of the signing of Jonathan Viera, who will be presented at the Gran Canaria Stadium one hour before the game, Las Palmas is looking tonight for that first victory that confirms his good but irregular sensations of this start, that led him to dominate Valladolid and Girona for many minutes but not to get the three points of the rhyton. The possible entries of Pejiño, Sadiku and maybe Jesé, since Pepe Mel’s team still lacks a lot of offensive bite.
Precisely on the attack front it will be decisive Jonathan Viera, the best and most decisive footballer in the category. Although yesterday he trained for the first time with the group, it was only for a while as he continues to recover from his knee problems. At the moment this game is lost and next week’s against Mirandés, as Pepe Mel assured in the press room.
Few changes are expected in defense in Las Palmas, indisputable as are, for now, Lemos, Navas and Ferigra. Benito, sent off against Valladolid, could return to the left side.
On your side, Huesca de Ambriz arrives as the leader of the category, unbeaten and offering unbeatable sensations. However, the coach will have to qualify his alignment by the loss of Nwakali and everything indicates that Mosquera will be his replacement. The Galician veteran will return to the starting eleven after his late renewal with the Huesca team that made him miss the preseason. Experience guaranteed by the medium, which He will share the core with Mikel Rico and the sensation footballer from the start of the season in Segunda, Jaime Seoane.
Keys to the match
Rotations: Mel drew a team in Valladolid with five starting changes. Pejiño, Sadiku and Benito could return, sent off before the Blanquivioleta team.
Unbeaten: Andrés has not yet removed a ball from his goal. Accumulate 180 minutes without conceding a single goal.
Attack: Las Palmas needs more offensive power, at the moment very big only on paper. He has barely scored a goal in the first two games.
Escriche and the goal: Burriana’s forward does everything well but the goal resists him. On the last day he collided with the crossbar.
Aces to follow
Las Palmas: Sergio Ruiz. Man for everything in the insular engine room. Captain and essential for Mel.
Huesca: Seoane. He is the best midfielder in the category and is fine in the face of goal with two goals in two games.
Ups and downs:
Las Palmas: Cedrés and Viera are injured. Benito returns, who was sanctioned.
Huesca: Ambriz loses Nwakali, Insua and Pitta through injury. Summons Juan Carlos, the last Barça reinforcement.