MADRID, September 30th (EUROPA PRESS) –
This Monday, Villarreal beat UD Las Palmas (3-1) in the last match of the eighth day of Liga EA Sports, a result with which the team of Marcelino García Toral, thanks to the goals of Pépé, Barry and Baena , rises to third position. , while the Canarian team remains at the bottom.
Under the excellent leadership of Alex Baena, who scored the last goal of the evening and was able to recover a missed penalty, the “Yellow Submarine” showed its superiority to sign its third victory in the last four matches and rank third with 17 points, behind one from Real Madrid and four from leader Barça. Luis Carrión’s men, for their part, still do not know victory and have four units saved.
In an intense first half at the Estadio de la Cerámica, Fábio Silva warned the Canaries in the first minutes, after a superb play from Alberto Moleiro, with a shot that narrowly missed, and Ilias Akhomach responded with a shot deviated from the front.
Meanwhile, Diego Conde distinguished himself with a double intervention before the half-hour mark, first with a hand against the head of Adnan Januzaj and shortly after by catching a ball from Silva. The Castellón players, for their part, almost scored on a lateral foul on which Dinko Horkas took a saving foot to thwart Sergi Cardona’s shot. A few minutes later, the Croatian goalkeeper appeared again to stop another shot from Akhomach.
Just before half-time, during a counter-attack triggered after another Condé save, Thierno Barry stood in the Gran Canaria area and served Nicolas Pépé, who controlled the ball only inside the area and sent the ball into the back of the net (min.44).
However, upon returning from the locker room, 20 seconds into the second half, Luis Carrión’s men managed to neutralize “Submarino’s” goal; Januzaj threw a nice pass into space for Fábio Silva, who entered the area and fired the ball at Diego Conde (min.46).
Having almost no time to celebrate, in the 49th minute, the referee awarded a penalty to the locals for Horkas who brought down Pépé; Alex Baena stood within eleven meters, but the goalkeeper of the Gran Canaria team guessed his intentions and deflected the ball which, after hitting the crossbar, was cleared by the defense. The crossbar also thwarted a strike from Januzaj in the 55th minute.
Already in the 75th minute, the referee canceled a goal for offside by Barry, who found the net shortly after, in the 82nd, in another game invalidated for the same reason. However, the referee spoke to VAR and decided to consider the goal valid when he realized that the Frenchman was in the correct position on his head. In stoppage time, Baena sealed the duel with a run from midfield towards the rival area (min.97).
