Friday, starting at 21:45 will be played match Las Palmas – Espanyol Barcelona in the round number 8. While “canaries” are close to European Cups, guest team is struggling in the basement clasmaentului.
Las Palmas
Gran Canaria has a team season start downright excellent. Las Palmas ranks the 7th in La Liga, with a cumulative total of 11 points in the first 7 stages has been employed. However, we must mention that Las Palmas failed to win even one game in the last 3 stages, during which he recorded two draws (2-2 Osasuna in Pamplona and 2-2 at home to Real Madrid ) and a defeat (1-4 score on the ground from Real Sociedad).
The main asset of the team is offensive department, which this debut SAESONAL went unexpectedly well. Las Palmas scored no less than 16 goals in 7 matches, with – on par with Real Madrid, the second best attack in La Liga, the only band that is better in this respect is FC Barcelona, which perforated gate opponents 22 times.
Espanyol Barcelona
On the other hand, Espanyol Barcelona is not found very little in this start to the season. The band of Catalunya failed to gather than 6 points, placing them in a relegation position number 18. However, we must consider that in the last 3 stages Espanyol got 4 points – twice more than had managed to win in the top 5, after first victory (2-1 at Osasuna Pamplona) and white shed impotriba “Yellow submarine” Villarreal.
Even if the offensive from Espanyol is an extremely decent – 9 goals scored, the defense department has not done very well so far, cashing Espanyol 14 goals. So, what’s second city Barcelona team has the third worst defense behind Osasuna (15 goals conceded) and Granada (16 goals conceded).
Info direct dispute Las Palmas – Espanyol
– Outside parties from last season, the two teams have not met since 2002;
– Las Palmas and Espanyol have shared victories in the previous edition – 4-0 and 1-0 in Catalunya Gran Canaria;
– Espanyol has never won on the ground in Las Palmas.
Given that the two teams have not only met 2 times in the last 14 years, we can not consider past results necessarily relevant in observing a certain trend. Therefore, we shall stake in this duel primarily on extremely weak defense of both teams.
