Willian Jose was the second - highest goalscorer for La Liga's underachievers Las
Palmas last term, scoring nine goals in 30 matches and that form prompted Real Sociedad to sign him permanently in the summer.
They opened their new league campaign with a 1 - 0 home win over Las
Palmas last weekend with Simone Zaza getting the goal.
Not exact matches
In turn, that puts a lot of pressure on that clash as Barca have started to slip since
last month, having now been held to draws by Espanyol, Getafe and Las
Palmas.
The
last thing Barcelona needed ahead of facing title rivals Atletico Madrid this weekend was more dropped points, but that's what happened at Las
Palmas.
Furthermore, Las
Palmas have scored just nine goals in their
last ten home games across all competitions.
José González» side are seven points from safety and already appear gone — they lost to Las
Palmas in a crucial relegation six - pointer
last week and haven't won a league game since Nov. 19.
Las
Palmas hold a strong head - to - head home record against Alaves, but Alaves are undefeated in the
last three meetings with the hosts.
Juanfran absolutely fell off a cliff during his age - 32 season
last year, and although he's occasionally proved capable of rolling back the years — exhibit A: his through ball to Antoine Griezmann against Las
Palmas — the Canary Islanders are probably the caliber of competition he can play against these days.
However, this hot streak would not
last, and Carrasco gradually earned the label of «flat - track bully,» piling up stats against the Granadas and Las
Palmas - es of the world while providing little value against Real Madrid, Sevilla and Barcelona.
At home, Las
Palmas are winless in their
last five league...
In the
last match, Real destroyed Las
Palmas in la Liga competition by 3 — 0 goals.
Failed to win the
last match against Las
Palmas yesterday at Santiago Bernabeu, Real Madrid has lost their top ranking position to their most rival club another Spanish giant Barcelona.
Barring
last - minute injury, Oghenekaro Etebo should be in the Las
Palmas starting eleven to face Barcelona on Thursday.
Las
Palmas are 18th in La Liga, two points adrift of Levante, who are 17th and hold the
last position of safety.
In
last Thursday against Las
Palmas, the Catalan club made a draw by 1 — 1 goal.
The coach said the plan was to position Angel Correa and Yannick Carrasco up front on the wings, just as he did in matches
last month against Getafe, Girona and the second half of the Las
Palmas contest.
Las
Palmas made their 2nd debut on Primera League on
last season and on the very first meeting they defeats Sevilla by 2 - 0 goals.
Malaga and Las
Palmas will play the 2nd match of the season among them at the
last round of the season.
Before
last season victory, Sevilla never won against Las
Palmas.
La Provincia reported
last week that Las
Palmas had accepted a $ 25m bid for Viera, who was tied to the Canary Islands - based club until June 2021 and had a $ 30m release clause.
Las
Palmas could not manage much opportunities in the match where they failed to win in their
last six matches consecutively.
His best campaign, however, came
last year when Bastón managed to finish joint runner - up in the second division scoring charts with an impressive 23 goals for Real Zaragoza as he guided them to the promotion play - off final where they ultimately lost to Las
Palmas, thereby denying him the honour of winning promotion to La Liga in two consecutive seasons.
Las
Palmas are in the relegation zone, 18th in La Liga and two points adrift of Levante, who are 17th and hold the
last position of safety.
Managerless Las
Palmas struck twice in the
last 10 minutes to snatch a 2 - 2 draw with Espanyol, but remain rooted to the foot of the table.
It was only
last week that Angel Ramirez, the president of Las
Palmas, confirmed that the La Liga club faced a tough battle with Liverpool for Jese's signature:
Match Preview: Real Madrid has had difficult couple of months where they lost against Valencia, got lucky against Villarreal and Las
Palmas but dropping 5 points in
last three La Liga games have allowed Barcelona to make their way back into the title race.
Madrid are coming into this game on the back of a exciting 3 - 2 win over Villarreal
last weekend and they will be heavy favourites going into the midweek game against Las
Palmas.
Last time these two meet was back in September when Las
Palmas held Madrid to a very respectable 2 - 2 draw at home.
Setién turned small Las
Palmas into one of the best teams in La Liga over the
last two seasons, and taking charge of a historic club like Betis will be a big challenge for him as well.
Las
Palmas have just kept one clean sheet in their
last 19 league games, conceding 43 goals on aggregate (2.3 per game).
Las
Palmas is perhaps the
last «easy» opponent Barça will face for a while; after the international break the Blaugrana travel to Atlético Madrid and Athletic Bilbao, and also face Sevilla at home during a truly difficult month of October.
Last season was Las
Palmas joint highest top flight league position since they finished 6th way back during the 78/79 campaign.
Last season's runnerups have only 7 win in this season Other hand
Palmas have 5 victory so far.
It has been patchy from them lately in terms of results as Real Madrid have gone W1 D1 L1 in their
last three games, the only win in that sequence happening at home against Las
Palmas.
Including 2005 - 06 season's Copa Del Ray head to head, among
Palmas and rest of 2 head to head comes on very
last season, where Las
Palmas promoted to the Primera League first time ever.
Overall this season Real Madrid are W9 D4 L2 on their travels and they have won their
last two on the road, their
last one a 3 - 0 success at Las
Palmas who are second from bottom in the table.
Defeating Valencia was impressive for Las
Palmas although the «Valencianistes» are still in the process of recovering from a disappointing season
last time out.
Las
Palmas fought and scrapped two draws out of Real Madrid in
last season's La Liga meetings.
Last season Real Madrid had to settle for two draws in the league against Las
Palmas but Los Merengues will be backed to beat them this time around.
Victory this weekend away at Sevilla will leave many believing that Las
Palmas could well have the squad to compete for Europe (let's be realistic the league title is surely out of the question) and that must surely be the goal for a team who finished a respectable 11th place in
last season's La Liga after promotion from the Spanish second division.
Away from home, they are W1 D2 in their
last three having been held to surprise 1 - 1 draws in that sequence at Espanyol and Las
Palmas.
Last week, our filmmaker friends Borja and Chamo from Las
Palmas in the Canary Islands came to visit our surf camp in Moliets, France and got some amazing footage!