He broke Las Palmas, last Saturday and in Valladolid, his worst streak of results of the season, one that amounted to five consecutive days without tasting the taste of victory. Sadiku’s goal ended, with a stroke of the pen, the continuous disappointments against Burgos (0-2), Zaragoza (2-1), Lugo (2-2), Huesca (0-0) and Girona (1-3).
Equally, the 0-1 in Valladolid opens the doors wide for UD to break another streak that shows the decadent trajectory that the team from Gran Canaria is experiencing, at the moment seven points from the playoffs with 10 league games still ahead of them. Thus, in the event that Las Palmas manages to beat Leganés next Monday (8:00 p.m. insular time, Gran Canaria Stadium), he would snag two straight wins almost five months later.
Yet with Pepe Mel on the bench, Las Palmas got a refresher in Lugo (2-0) after having beaten Tenerife (2-1). The yellow team knew how to react, which won three games in one fell swoop, those played against Alcorcón (October 24, 3-0), Real Sociedad B (October 29, 0-1) and Fuenlabrada (November 3, 2-1). Since then, he is still not able to win more than one game in a row, something inappropriate for a team of such high rank in the category, a sovereign example of the irregularity that so grips their chances of playing the playoffs.
If beating Leganés would mean winning at least two games in a row so long after, it would also bring about the Unión Deportiva ingratiating itself with its own fans. It happens that Las Palmas hasn’t celebrated a triumph in its lair since December 5, three months and 17 days ago, when a goal from Berrocal in his own goal served to break, 1-0, to Sporting de Gijón.
All the that it was not to beat Leganés would be one more weight in the backpack of a Las Palmas Sports Union who faces, with little guarantee of success, the steep ramp in which she is involved in order to play the qualifying rounds for promotion. So, getting the three points against the pepinero team could put him back on track and break a more than blushing double streak for a candidate, distant but who once was, to play next season in the First Division.