Madrid (EFE).- Granada and Las Palmas certified their return to LaLiga Santander this Saturday after certifying the promotion this Saturday, after beating Leganés 2-0 and drawing 0-0 with Alavés, respectively, on the last day from LaLiga SmartBank.
The Andalusian team, which faced the last date as leader of the classification, did not fail and will return just one year later to the highest category of Spanish football, after beating Leganés 2-0 with goals from Albanian Myrto Uzuni and Bryan Zaragoza .
If Uzuni, top scorer in the category with 23 goals, was in charge of opening the scoring for Granada after 42 minutes, at 58 Bryan Zaragoza, one of the proper names in the “Nazarí” team, was in charge of sentencing the victory and promotion of Paco López’s men.
More suffered was the promotion of Las Palmas, which five years later will return to LaLiga Santander, after drawing this Saturday 0-0 with Alavés at the Gran Canaria stadium, in a match in which the people of Vitoria would have achieved promotion if they had won .
The players of UD Las Palmas celebrate their promotion from the first division after finishing the game of the last day of LaLiga Smartbank played this Saturday at the Gran Canaria Stadium. EFE / Elvira Urquijo A.
A new opportunity
But Las Palmas, who had not won at home since February 26, when Xavier García Pimienta’s men beat Ponferradina 2-0, withstood the attacks from the “babazorro” team and achieved the point they needed to return, a five years later, to the highest category of Spanish football.
A promotion that Levante, Alavés, Eibar and Albacete will have a new opportunity to achieve in the promotion playoffs that will start next week.
Duels in which Levante, third, will face Albacete, sixth, while Alavés, fourth, will face Eibar, fifth, in search of a place in the final of the promotion phase from which the team that will accompany Granada and Las Palmas on their return to LaLiga Santander.