Las Palmas-Betis: a tie that serves no purpose

Las Palmas and Real Betis signed a draw at the Gran Canaria Stadium (1-1) that serves no purpose, since the Canaries remain bottom and have their twenty-first game without winning, while the Verdiblancos do not know what it is to achieve the victory away from Villamarín, where they have only added two points from the nine played, which keeps them in the lower middle zone of the table.

Las Palmas came out to play without their starting defensive quartet, but with Moleiro, an extraordinary footballer, who two minutes into the game pulled out a great pass on Fabio Silva, which only the successful intervention of Rui Silva prevented from being the 1-0, later achieved by Moleiro himself after an excellent attack by Viti on the right wing.

Betis suffered the blow for a long time and until halfway through the first half they were not able to begin to dangerously reach the vicinity of Cillessen’s goal, against which Assane Diao (22′), Ez Abde (32′) and Marc Roca (39′) gave a recital of missed chances, with three failed shots from near the six-yard box and with hardly any opposition.

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Betica’s insistence was rewarded just when the two minutes of stoppage time granted by Sánchez Martinez had passed due to some interruption in added time, when Fornals leaked a pass between the local defense and left Assane and Lo Celso alone for the former to assist. and the second scored at will the 1-1 and his fourth goal in just a week, as he scored two against Getafe, one against Mallorca and another against Las Palmas in eight days.

In the second half, Las Palmas played very withdrawn and Betis, despite playing almost all the time in the rival field, was barely able to create a clear scoring chance, in a shot by Bakambu (81′) that crashed into the post. left of Cillessen’s goal, after Perraud tested Cillessen’s reflexes with a hard and sloping shot.