Weekend in Madrid

If only we had won the weekend would have been perfect.
Saturday morning saw us in Tenerife airport on aour way to Madrid again for the away game against Atletico Madrid. The flight was plain sailing and we had another "ontime" flight with Ryanair.


The afternoon flew by and we headed into the city centre to find the others but it wasn't to be. I should have remembered in the Irish bar in Sol the noise level is so bad that no one can hear their phone.
Sunday saw us again on our way into Sol and this time we found some of the other fans from Armada Sur. Some were more fragile but everyone was having a good time.
Slowly we moved twards the stadium where my son met up with his friends who are at universtiy in Madrid and that was the last we saw of him for several hours.
We stopped with several other Tenerife fans to have a drink in one of the bars outside the stadium and were invloved in a long conversation with Athletic fans about which team Atleti would be better playing in the final of the Europa League if they made the made the next round.
We moved into the stadium with high hopes but it wasn't to be. Maybe it was the stadium or the players just couldn't on the day. Atletico scored 2 goals. We had chances, Ayoze hit the goal post in the first 10 minutes but their defence was strong and it seemed when we reached their goal area there were 7 or 8 defending. In the second half Roman scored with a pass from Dinei and it seemed that we might be able to equalise but there you go then Aguero scored a third goal for Atletico Madrid and that was it. The Atletico ultra fans decided it would be fun to shout "Your going down to the second division" and that hurt. Maybe though it did our team a favor as the Tenerife fans went from complete silence to strong support as the game finished.
We need now to look forward to Saturdays game against Racing de Santander which we need to win.

Game Notes

ATLÉTICO DE MADRID 3 (2)
CD TENERIFE  1 (0)
ATLÉTICO DE MADRID
De Gea; Valera, Antonio López, Perea, Domínguez; Tiago, Camacho, Jurado (Simao, 73’),  Salvio, Reyes (Forlán, 73’); & Agüero (Ibrahima, 85’).
CD TENERIFE
Aragoneses; Marc Bertrán, Héctor, Culebras, Sicilia; Román, Mikel Alonso, Ayoze (Kome, 62’), Juanlu (Dinei, 55’); Alfaro (Ángel, 82’) & Nino.
REFEREE
Mateu la Hoz, from Valenciaa. Yellow cards fro loacl player  Domínguez   and for visitors Héctor y Román.
GOALS
1-0: (10’) Salvio. 2-0: (30’) Salvio, arriving from further down the field. 2-1: (60’) Román, from a pass by Dinei. 3-1: (77’) Agüero, from a pass from Forlán. 

INCIDENTS

Played in the stadium El Calderón. The grass was in good condition. Warm afternoon. With some 40.000 spectators of which about 700 were from CD Tenerife. One minutes silence was held for Juan Antonio Samaranch, ex president of the Olympic comitee. The day had been announced as the day of the children for the club and there had been activities including three air force parachutists landing on the field before the start of the game.

The B team had a win which took them out of relegation.