Hopeful for Sunday against Recreativo de Huelva

Iriome & David Prieto were the players in the press room on Wednesday in the El Mundialito grounds. Both players talked about the next game and how that is much more important than the future for CD Tenerife.
Iriome started, he recognised that “it has been a strange week as we didn't play on Sunday. But on the other hand we have had much more time to work and improve our game”.
For the local player, the forced rest over the weekend shouldn't prove a stopping point for the recovery CD Tenerife have shown in the last few weeks: “The consistency we have shown is the result of hard work. This break should have no effect on our play. The group are improving training session after training session”.
In the purely personal the young man from Icod de los Vinos explained “I have had various games without playing and would really like the chance. My daily work is to try to get back into the team, like every other player”.
When asked about the next game in the Nuevo Colombino, Iriome commented that “we hope for a victory in Huelva. It won't be easy. They need to win too. On our side, the goal is to get off the bottom of the table as soon as possible”.
“It is an error to think past the next game. What will happen in the following weeks aren't yet important. The league is very balanced. This team has quality and the league is long. The key is to improve game by game, training after training session”, he concluded.
For David Prieto the wait for the next match “has been very long. From the moment the game against Granada was suspended we have concentrated on the match against Recre. We don't think about any game but the one in front of us on Sunday”.
“For CD Tenerife all the matches are important. We need to gains points in threes. The first plan is to get out of relegation”, he added.
The defender explained that “the team is working well. I can see more confidence. We want to play in Huelva. In training we all try our hardest. If we all compete at 100 percent there will be a notable difference ”.
“In any instance a draw is no good. We need to go out to win. Anything can happen in the game and finally a draw may be finally what we can achieve”, he ended.

Usually lucky in Huesca.

In six of the seven visits the team has played in Huesca the team has come home with points. Only when C D Tenerife was in the third division did they lose in the Alcoraz stadium.

	CD Tenerife is visiting this Saturday one of its lucky stadiums. Only the first game played against Huesca in the third division resulted in a loss in the season 70-71 but that was in the San Jorge stadium. Since then they have achieved three wins and a further three draws.   The most recent game in the season 08-09 in the second division ended in a 0-0 draw in spite of many chances to score.  Iriome González who played on loan last season for Huesca commented yesterday that the stadium holds many good memories for him and that he was looking forward to visiting Huesca again. But he also stated that "We need to win and the Alcoraz is a difficult stadium. We will need to play full out to win there". When asked about Sunday's game he said "It was a tough game and we made an effort but things didn't work out. The first half was under control but everything changed with the Nastic goal. We are all conscious that this was a good chance to move up the table and we have lost that opportunity, now there is nothing left but to continue working hard". Pablo Sicilia also spoke of the next game in Huesca on Monday, he noted that "It will be complicated as it seems especially hard for us to add points away, but we need to do the right things in the game to be able to get a good result".

Interviews with the players after the loss against Rayo Vallecano

In interviews after the game yesterday several players made comments. They included the following:

Iriome González.- “If you know the second division then you can't say we were thrashed as a team can dominate for 80 minutes and still receive a gol. Rayo Vallecano were the team who had mastery of the ball for parts of the game but we had better control and it is a pity with only a few minutes to go before the end they scored a goall”

 

 

Juanlu Hens.- “Attack was hard but in defense we had most things under control. One of the things we have struggled with is  the still ball. In a single attack they managed to score their goal. I think the players tried hard and fought.  Rayo is a tough team at home and they didn't leave us much space. We need to stop this bad run and start thinking about the next home game. We want the first three points and to leave all this behind”.

 

Melli.- “This time the team was different, we managed to compete. The result is bad but today we were better in mid-field and now all we can do is start to think about the next game. If we play the way we did then few points will pass us by.  Our comitment is endless. If you look at their goal it was from a dead ball and with luck they managed to score. We had the game under control but were unlucky that we didn''t score”.