Start of the rest of the season

The holidays are always a quiet time. But now things are starting to move again. The team have signed two new players Adriane from Gran Canaria via Leganes and Raul Llorente. The first is a big forward and the second is a left back.
There is talk on the mainland that the club has received an offer for Marcos Rodriguez from second division team Cartageña, but this hasn't been confirmed by the club.

Luna has rescinded his contract and is now playing in Ecuador. His final comments when interviewed were, " I have a clear mind, I have always tried my best. I have seen everything here, I have played and sat on the bench, I have gone up and come down a league and Itake with me the best of those times and will forget the rest".

The team plays tomorrow in Alcala de Henares at 11am Canarian time and is not televised. They are in the middle of the table and an away win would be great. The team hasn't won away for four months so it must be our turn. We will be putting out updates on facebook and on twitter for those who want to keep up with what is going on.

Better played but only a draw

In one of the better games this season CD Tenerife only managed a draw. 0-0 was the starting and final result in a very balanced game.










CD Tenerife let Atlético de Madrid B (0-0) get away with a draw in a very balanced game. The blue and whites played a good first half and in the second half slightly let their guard down. In the first few minutes Víctor Bravo, Perona, Tacón & Chechu could have scored. The audience were awesome and with almost 9,000 people in the stadium it was the best audience in Segunda B and only two stadiums had better crowds in segunda. Las Plamas wasn't one of them. The first half was even and at the break the result was still 0-0. Calderón again chose to put Kitoko in central defence something we saw several games last year too. David Medina was therefore in midfield with Marcos. In the second half Atletico had more chances and Calderón made the fist changes offensively bringing on Kiko Ratón & Nico for Marcos & Chechu. In the last few minutes the opponents went all out for a win and Aragoneses (71’) saved the ball from a shot by Fer and shortly after, Pedro Martín (73’) put the ball over the bar. CD Tenerife kept on trying and Kiko Raton fought hard as the minutes passed. The score never changed and CD Tenerife has now played eight games at home without a loss, a position that it is a privilege to be in. There are only three games left of the fist round and next weekend the team are away to a side who are also fighting hard for a play off position.

 Game Notes

 CD TENERIFE                        0 (0)
 ATLÉTICO DE MADRID B    0 (0)

 CD TENERIFE Sergio Aragoneses; Cristóbal, Jonay, Kitoko, Ayoze; David Medina (Tarantino, 86’), Marcos Rodríguez (Kiko Ratón, 61’), Chechu (Nico, 61’), Víctor Bravo; Ferrán Tacón & Perona.

ATLÉTICO DE MADRID B Iago; Regalón, César Ortiz, Míchel, Javi Cantero; Fer, Sergio Marcos, Omar Santana (Ndoye, 68’), Saúl (Luque, 74’); Noguera (Gerard, 84’) & Pedro Martín. REFEREE Iván González, from the Balearic islands. Yellow card for local player Víctor Bravo; and for visitors Fer & Omar Santana.

GOALS
 None

INCIDENTS

Played in the Heliodoro Rodríguez López stadium with the ground in good condition on a cool morning with 8.920 spectators.

Thursday round up

Tickets will go on sale for the CD Tenerife v Rayo Vallecano B game from Saturday the 22nd of October from 10am to 1pm. and on Sunday from 10 am until the start of the game at 12.00. The team trained Wednesday and all were fit except Ruben Rosquete, Pablo Sicilia and Jesus Alvarez. Also present from the second team were Dani Mederos and Roberto. Thursday training was in the Heliodoro and the additional players were Alberto, Jairo & Sandro from the B team. Pablo Sicilia, Jesús Álvaro and Rubén Rosquete trained separately again. Pablo is now beginning to train with a ball. This week players interviewed included Marcos Rodríguez who was asked about the distance achieved by rival teams. He replied, “The competition has just started and although some teams have had positive results we need to stay calm and think about our games”. Richie Kitoko talked about how he was looking forward to “Sunday” to compete against Rayo Vallecano B: “Like all my colleagues, we want the game to come so we can correct our mistakes”. Ferran Tacon commented that the squad “want to make the point we won in La Roda count by winning at home”. He continued, “we want to make the fans happy. Rayo Vallecano B will make things difficult for us but we need to control the game and play the way we want to. I think the game will be open, with both teams trying to control the ball”. Christobal Juncal spoke of the match too, “Playing at home, where we are strong means we can win the three points. We are all aware that we can't let these points go. We are fed up with only gaining one point in the last 2 games. But the world didn't end with those games and we need to play from match to match. Just thinking about the next game. We need to go out and try hard against Rayo Vallecano B and see if we can make the results work for us”. Aitor Nuñez who really didn't play for CD Tenerife in the two years he was with the club is now playing for Rayo B and talked on the radio this week about how he now feels he should have put himself forward more. Especially last year when the results were so awful.

Can't have Monday blues if we are second.

It seems wrong to have the blues if the team are second. We were lucky yesterday, the team didn't do well but neither did any of the other teams at the top so we are still second.

Game notes


REAL MADRID CASTILLA 3 (1)
CD TENERIFE                      1 (0)

REAL MADRID CASTILLA: Jesús Fernández; Carvajal, Casado, Nacho Fernández, Iván González; Mandi, Juanfran, Alex Fernández (Omar, 80’), Jesé Rodríguez (Lucas, 80’); Joselu & Morata (Merchán, 70’).

CD TENERIFE: Sergio Aragoneses; Cristóbal, Medina, Tarantino, Jonay; Kitoko, Marcos Rodríguez (Zazo, 68’); Perona (Germán, 85’), Víctor Bravo (Nico, 58’), Ferrán Tacón; & Kiko Ratón. 

REFEREE: Antonio Santos, from Andalcia. Yellow card for local player Carvalaj; and for the visitors Marcos, Tarantino, Kitoko, Jonay, Ratón & Tacón.

GOALS: 1-0: (27’) Joselu, from a penalty. 2-0: (47’) Morata, after a shot by Juanfra. 3-0: (57’) Joselu finished a counter attack. 3-1: (79’) Zazo, from a free kick.

INCIDENTS: The match was played in the Alfredo Di Stéfano stadium. The grass was in good condition and it was a warm morning, with approx 1500 spectators of which 150 were blue and white CD Tenerife fans. The club president Miguel Concepción, was in the stand.

Comments from the players included: Zazo: “The referee wasn't much help with several decisions. The 2-0 came very quickly and was a hard thing to bear. After the break we came out with the plan to change the dynamics.. When you come in off the bench you hope you can help the team".




 Marcos: “We had a good plan which up to the 1-0 was going well but that goal changed everything. You can still learn from experiences like this. I am not convinced this was a yellow card. We went out to try but sometimes things don't work. We need to shoot more at the goal". Tarantino: “This was a painful loss because we had high hopes for the game. It was complicated and we fought hard. Once you are at a disadvantage it is always complicated to come back and more so if we are talking about an opponent like Castilla".
 Kitoko: “We feel bad with the loss. After the pause we came back out ready to fight. We tried until the end and we looked to change the game. The penalty was important and it wasn't an intentional action. We were unlucky”.
 Jonay: “After the penalty we went all out for the game, leaving spaces and they made the most of this. After the 3-0, we reacted well but we should have done this before. The team is still doing well, we know there are things to do and we need to work hard. These losses need to be looked at and mistakes corrected. We hope to do better against La Roda".

 The team returned home on Sunday evening and train today and rest Tuesday.

The coach Calderon in his press conference stated, "we were playing well up to the first goal. The penalty was a tough call and in the last week there has been talk about how badly Madrid have been treated by the referees. Castilla were enthused by the goal and went from strength to strength".

First Draw of the season. 1-1 against Conquense

Monday morning and although the team only managed a draw they are right now group leaders.



In a game that lacked spark, the players tried all they could. The referee wasn't as accurate as could be desired but everyone keeps reminding me this is 2B. (I have seen better referees in a lowest level regional match).
The team had chances to score, in the first ten minutes Meji and Tacon  had chances and so it went on. Richi Kitoko wasn't at his best and Conquense's goal came from a mistake he made. German came on for Perona who was injured in the first half and he too didn't have the best of games.
Coach Antonio Calderon talked about how the team hadn't been accurate, he reminded that they played the cup game on Wednesday and were somewhat tired. He continued saying, "we wanted to move the bal forward fast but that isn't our game. We need to move the ball around and wait for chances". Again he thanked the fans repeating his comments from the last game, "we need to thank the fans . They helped us the whole game and this made things much more difficult for our rival".
Once more the stadium had more fans than any in our group and only Betis B had a bigger gate which I would put down to the facts that theirs was a derby against Sevilla B and the first team were not playing.
The players interviewed included Marcos  Rodriguez who talked about the group, how they worked well together and although they have made mistakes they had worked hard. German said, "Two points escaped here today but the team worked hard". Kiko Raton who scored his first offical goal of the season have stated he was, "not happy.We come losing in the cup and hoped tomake the fans happy. Looking at everything the point isn't bad and it is a shame that when I finally score it doesn't help the team".

The team are going all out on Sunday, said Marcos Rodriguez

Marcos Rodríguez is in full process of adapting to CD Tenerife. The midfielder from Galicia is on of the last players to arrive on the island, he needs to acclimatise before the imminent start to the league. The footballer talked on Monday about this in the press room in the Mundialito grounds, speaking about the time he has spend so far on Tenerife.
He started by explaining, “I have started to play minutes in the two games against Las Palmas and generally I feel I am adapting well. Little by little I understand how the coach wants me to play. This is the way a player needs to act to have chances to play. The plan is to be as ready as possible for the game against Vecindario on Sunday”.
When asked about the game last weekend against UD Las Palmas, Rodríguez commented that “the team showed what they can do. We need to move step by step as there are many new players and we need to come together. There is still time to improve and come together. We will move up together”.
When asked about their preparations which were coming to an end he said “Pre season is to try things, to see how the players interact. Everyone wants to win, but right now this was a time for other aims. We will carry on working with intensity and next weekend we will will go all out to win, for the first three points of the season. From now we need to charge our batteries as this will be a complicated season”.
“We want to start the league well, although we are conscious that there will be difficulties this Sunday”, he added.