Las Palmas have now gone 10 games without a win in LaLiga, with the points shared in their match against Celta Vigo at Estadio de Balaídos, keeping the visitors in the relegation zone.
González opened the scoring on the stroke of half time, with a lovely goal that curled past Las Palmas’ Dinko Horkas following a fiery start from the winger.
Celta Vigo’s lead was quickly squashed as the visitors’ very own Alberto Moleiro finished a squared ball supplied by Oliver McBurnie.
The drama didn’t finish there, as Fabio Silva thought he had won it for the side threatened by relegation, but his goal was ruled out by VAR for offside in the build-up.
As it happened
The first 15 minutes were relatively quiet in the contest barring a few half chances created by the host’s left winger González, who had made a lively start to the fixture.
Silva nearly found his ninth of the season were it not for ex-Crystal Palace goalkeeper Vicente Guaita’s outstretched glove, which kept his long ranged effort out.
Celta Vigo’s dominance produced the first real chance of the game as the seasoned hitman Borja Iglesias struck a shot from close range which was met at the near post by Las Palmas’ Jesper Cillessen, before he was replaced by Horkas following a collision with Iglesias moments later.
Claudio Giráldez’s side kept el Pío-Pío caged in their own half right up until half-time, where yet again González was key and broke the deadlock. He cut in swiftly off the left and whipped a ball into the far corner of the goal which gave him his third league goal of the season and the home side a timely lead just moments before the end of the first half.
Vigo’s lead, although narrow, was deserved: they had all but one of the shots in the first half as the visitors struggled to bring either of their two strikers into play before the break.
It took just three minutes into the second half for Las Palmas to draw level. A nicely worked move finished by young winger Moleiro after a clever dummy by Fabio Silva brought it to 1-1.
That didn’t stop Celta Vigo however, as they continued controlling the possession and continued knocking on the door. González came the closest and his attempt flashed across the face of the goal from a tight angle.
Minutes later Ilaix Moriba was then found in behind and with a shot prodded past Horkas, but not quite past Viti who recovered well to clear off the line.
Just before the 70th minute Silva gave Las Palmas the lead against the run of play, were it not for VAR. He fired a sweet volley through Guaita’s legs which came from a scuffed clearance. His strike partner McBurnie was deemed to have interfered with play after making an offside run, which effected Carl Starfelt’s defending and led to referee Juan Martinez to disallow the goal.
The game very much petered out in the final 20 minutes, with neither team looking like they wanted to risk losing the game, despite Vigo searching for European football and Las Palmas wanting to escape the bottom three.
Las Palmas’ Diego Martinez’s job will come under scrutiny even more following this result as the side will continue their search for a league win in 2025 as they look onward to a home fixture against Real Sociedad next game week.
The lineups
CEL: Guaita; Rodriguez, Starfelt, Alonso; Carreira, Rodriguez, Moriba, Ristic; Losada, Iglesias, González
LPM: Cillessen; Viti, Herzog, McKenna, Mármol; Muñoz, Bajčetić, Campaña, Moleiro; McBurnie, Silva
