Las Palmas vs Girona Preview & Prediction | 2024-25 Spanish Primera
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We should and could well have an entertaining encounter in the Canary Islands this weekend as a struggling Las Pamas side take on a Girona side that have regressed to the mean during the 2024/25 campaign.
KICK-OFF DATE/TIME: Saturday 26th October, 2024 - UK – 5:30pm / US ET – 12:30pm / US PT –9:30am
HOW TO WATCH ON TV: UK – Premier Sports / US – ESPN have the exclusive rights to La Liga games in the USA, so Las Palmas vs Girona may be televised on one of their affiliated channels
HOW TO WATCH ONLINE: UK – Premier Sports / US – ESPN+
LAS PALMAS PREVIEW: FINALLY WINNING
Garcia Pimienta departed Las Palmas this summer to go and become the new coach at Sevilla after he had led the Canary Islanders to promotion and then comfortable survival in La Liga in the last couple of seasons. They had started the season with no victory in their opening nine matches but earned their much-needed win the other day.
Garcia Pimienta’s replacement, Luis Carrion, earned his first victory of the season with an entertaining 3-2 victory against Valencia at Mestalla on Monday. Pepelu opened the scoring for the Valencians before goals from Alex Munoz, Fabio Silva and Alberto Moleiro. Cesar Tarrega did pull a goal back in second-half stoppage-time.
GIRONA PREVIEW: GIRONA’S MUCH-NEEDED WIN
In each of the last two summer transfer windows, Girona have had to sell key players and try to rebuild their squad. This summer, the Catalans lost Aleix Garcia, Savio and Artem Dovbyk. Michel predicted they may struggle this time around and that has been the case as they begin the weekend sitting in the bottom-half of La Liga.
The Catalans do come into this one on the back of a much-needed 2-0 defeat of Slovan Bratislava at the Montilivi in the UEFA Champions League in midweek. Prior to that victory, Girona had managed just one victory in their previous eight matches across all competitions since the September international break.
LAS PALMAS TEAM NEWS: COUPLE OF ISSUES
The home team have a couple of injury issues for this weekend’s clash with Girona in Gran Canaria as defender Marvin Park is unavailable due to a hamstring injury.
The defender has a couple of other issues but the key issue for Las Palmas would be that former Everton forward Sandro Ramirez is an injury doubt.
PREDICTED XI (4-2-3-1): Cillessen; Viti, Alex Suarez, McKenna, Alex Munoz; Dario Essugo, Jose Campana; Januzaj, Kirian Rodriguez, Alberto Moleiro; Silva
UNAVAILABLE: Park (Injured)
QUESTIONABLE: Sandro Ramirez (Injured)
GIRONA TEAM NEWS: SEVERAL ABSENTEES
Girona have several absentees for this weekend’s clash in Gran Canaria as Daley Blind, Oriol Romeu, Viktor Tsygankov and Portu are sidelined for this one.
As well as those absentees, they are also missing Jastin Garcia, Ricard Artero and Jhon Solis with goalkeeper Pau Lopez and forward Portu doubts for this weekend.
PREDICTED XI (3-1-4-2): Paolo Gazzaniga; Alejandro Frances, David Lopez, Krejci; Ivan Martin; Arnau Martinez, Van de Beek, Yangel Herrera, Miguel Gutierrez; Miovski, Danjuma
UNAVAILABLE: Blind (Injured), Ricard Artero (Injured), Jastin Garcia (Injured), Oriol Romeu (Injured), Tsygankov (Injured), Jhon Solis (Injured), Portu (Injured)
QUESTIONABLE: Pau Lopez (Injured), Bryan Gil (Injured)
LAS PALMAS VS GIRONA PREDICTION
Las Palmas have often been known as the ‘Brazilians of Spanish football’ and not just because of the colour of their kit. The Canary Islanders have also been able to play an exciting and entertaining style of football. Even when Girona have underperformed this season or overperformed last season, they have remained one of the most thrilling teams to watch in La Liga and both teams scoring would appear a good bet for this one at Estadio Gran Canaria.
LAS PALMAS VS GIRONA TIP: BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE
