The game we have all been waiting for

I think for many fans although they didn't expect Segunda B to be a wlk in the park they did expect to win a few games without suffering. The first few games in the season seemed to reinforce this and then the rest of the season arrived.
I sat after the game yesterday quietly just appreciating how great the feeling was to have won without suffering without being worried until the last minute what might happen. I have to say it is a great moment for the team to have recovered and I think we will make the playoffs. Theoretically we need one more win to be sure that we are ok. Both would probably move us up the table with a small chance we were second.
Second is an advantage as it gives you in theory a less difficult team and the second leg at home. This second  is the factor which would really help us, although I am sure many will travel to see the games where ever we are drawn.
Yesterdays game itself was great for Perona who scored a hat trick with the third being a penalty. The second was a really great goal and all three can be seen below.






CD TENERIFE   3 (2)
REAL OVIEDO  0 (0)

 CD TENERIFE
Sergio Aragoneses; Sergio Rodríguez, Pablo Sicilia, David Medina, Raúl Llorente; Chechu (Zazo, 62’), Kitoko, Víctor Bravo (Cristóbal, 85’), Quique López; Perona & Aridane (Ratón, 70’).

 REAL OVIEDO
Lledó; Owona (Pascual, 79’), Negredo, Juanma, Juanpa; Jandrín (Jairo, 68’), Aitor Sanz, Pelayo, Nano; Rubiato (Bustos, 46’) & Martins.

 REFEREE Antonio Santos Pargaña, from Andalucia. Yellow cards forlocal player Víctor Bravo and for the visitors Owona, Aitor Sanz & Juanpa.

 GOALS 1-0: (11’) Perona amade the most of a mistake by Owona, anfter a shot by Aridane. 2-0: (44’) Perona with a header from a shot by Chechu. 3-0: (78’) Perona, with a penalty.

 INCIDENTS  Played in the Heliodoro Rodriguez Lopez stadium with the gound in good condition on a sunny morning with 8,895 spectators sone 50 of which were from Oviedo. Before the game the squad from Iberostar Socas Canarias were presented to celebrate their going up to the ACB.

Making beds

Funny title for a football post more usual for housekeeping or housewives. There is a saying in Spain that players can make a bed for their coach.(Trying to get him sacked) I am not sure if that is what happened yesterday but there was talk in the stands in Leganes that this is what the players were doing. It was a terrible game and was televised and the highlights can be seen here. I don't really want to talk any more about the match itself.

Foto gracias a Paccuco

One of the things I love about following CDT is the friendships I have made. People I would never have met without the team. Leaving the hotel in the company of four lads from the Irish Clan the newest formed CDT fan Club, walking along the road being joined but a Brit from Armada Sur. A little further down the road we were joined by Paccuco from Barcelona and when we reached the grounds there were two more from Madrid itself and a couple from the UK. Football is not just hooligans it is great people who travel out of their way to see their team.

The lads from the Irish Clan Tenerife

The fans me included were very down after the game and we left the grounds with the plan to go strainght to the airport to wait for our flight when a message came in on the phone saying why don't we have lunch. This was the best part of the day and we spent the time with Antonio and the three other lads from the Irish Clan talking about CDT and various other clubs, the island and other away games we had been at. Four nicer lads I haven't met and I look forward to seeing them on other trips. They are above us in Herradura by the big screen and I think they will grow as a fan club as they have some great ideas.


Game Notes

CD LEGANÉS         2 (1)
CD TENERIFE        0 (0)

CD LEGANÉS
Rubén Falcón; Alcántara, Mario, Biel Medina, David López, Vicente, Rubén Navarro (Ballesteros, 81’), De Lerma (Navas, 69’), Tonino, Víctor (Chupe, 76’) & Pedro.
CD TENERIFE
Sergio Aragoneses; Cristóbal, Raúl Llorente, Pablo Sicilia, Tarantino; Marcos Rodríguez (Víctor Bravo, 68’), Zazo, Kike López, Ferrán Tacón (Aridane, 55’); Lusimi Loro & Kiko Ratón.

REFEREE
Juan Manuel López Amaya, from Andalucia.Sent off Luismi Loro (76’), with a second yellow card for hand ball. Yelow crds for local players De Lerma & Biel; and for visitors Kiko Ratón, Raúl Llorente, Zazo, Kike López & Pablo Sicilia.

GOALS
1-0: (17’) Tonino, over the keeers head. 2-0: (47’) Víctor, with a header.

INCIDENTS
Played in the Butarque stadium with the grounds in bad condition on a cold morning with 2,000 spectators of which at least 150 were CD Tenerife fans.

First time out with new coach was a winner

It is often said the first game with a new coach should be won. Although it was not like that last season the rule has been proved again for new coach Garcia Tebar.












CD Tenerife were in the Fuensanta grounds with new coach Garcia Tebas and new forward Lusmi Loro who has arrived last week to help the team.
Both sides had good chances in the first hold and the score could have gone either way. Chechu Flores had a shot at goal after 10 minutes and  pushed it over the long goal bar. After 21 minutes Kiko Raton came off injured and was replaced by Gran Canarian player Aridane. One and a half minutes later new player Loro centred the ball from the left wing to Aridande and the forward  headed the ball in the goal putting the blue and white team into the lead.After that the Conquense players fought back and Ruano, shot the ball at the post from the area and then eight minutes before the half time whistle Morillas and the wind shot at goal and Sergio pushed the ball over the goal leaving the team at 0-1 at half time.

Straight  after the players came back on the field the blue aand white players scored their second goal. A ball centred by Ferran Tacon was knocked in towards the far post by Chechu Flores. The island tam then tried to finish off the game but a clear penalty in the 57th minute was ignored by the referee and he then signaled a foul and second yellow card against Tarantino and he was then sent off. The team were now down to 10 men.
Six minutes later Conquense scored and bought the result to 1-2 with a goal by Vinuesa.

In the final minutes of the match the local team pushed hard to at least try to equalise and save themselves a point and they had several chances but the blue and whites pulled together and held the result adding three important points to bring home with them.


Game notes

UB CONQUENSE   1 (0)
CD TENERIFE        2 (1)

UB CONQUENSE
Caballero; Piette, Juan Fran (Dani Rodríguez, 68’), Juli Ferrer, Morillas; Javi Selvas, Pulga (Mauri, 52’), Cubillo, Dailos (Christian, 52’); Ruano & Vinuesa.

CD TENERIFE
Sergio Aragoneses, Cristóbal, Raúl Llorente, Pablo Sicilia, Tarantino; Kitoko, Marcos Rodríguez, Chechu (Medina, 59’), Ferrán Tacón; Luismi Loro (Víctor Bravo, 78’) & Kiko Ratón (Aridane, 20’).

REFEREE
Víctor Manuel Sánchez Rico, from Catalunya. Sent off visitor Tarantino (57’), with two yellow cards. Also visiting delegate Víctor Padrón. Yellow cards for local players Javi Selvas, Cubillo&  Piette; and for visitors Marcos Rodríguez, Loro & Kitoko. 

GOALS
0-1: (23’) Aridane, with a header. 0-2: (48’) Chechu, from a cross ball. 2-1: (63’) Vinuesa, from a pass by Mauri. 

INCIDENTS
Played in the La Fuensanta stadium. Ground was in terrible condition on a cold morning with 1,000 spectators.T Club president  Miguel Concepción present at the game.

"Movido" weekend

The Spanish have a word "Movido" which leterally translates to mean with movement but can also mean change or excitment. This is how I would have described last weekend.
There were changes in the starting eleven, Kiko wasn't paying and Aridane was starting up front, but just the one forward. Abel from the youth squads was in mid-field for the first time and yet again the team had changed. Calderon has only played the same squad twice this season. They came out on the field and looked good but a lucky play Guerrero scored for Sporting B. CD Tenerife had various chances but the ball didn't go in. Then Juan Muñiz scored a second goal for Sporting B from a free kick. The blue and white players never gave up and tried continually until half time to score.
At half time Tenerife decided to through chance to the wind and took off Medina and Abel bringing on Kiko and Nico. This left Chechu on the right  with Kitoko as the only midfielder, the two giants up front  and Nico behind them. The goal wasn't far behind and with a Sporting defense mistake Aridane took his chance and put the ball in the net.
The draw came with a penalty against Nico which Perona converted into a goal. But Sporting found an chance and scored their third goal.
The game finished with the fans shouting "Caalderon quit" and shortly after the match Sports manager Pedro Cordero announced that thecaoch had been sacked.

There is talk about the new coach but nothing has been confirmed bythe club

Calderon said goodbye to the players this morning and the new coach is expected this afternoon or tomorrow.









Game Notes


CD TENERIFE  2 (0)
SPORTING DE GIJÓN B 3 (2)
CD TENERIFE
Sergio Aragoneses; David Medina (Nico, 46’), Raúl Llorente, Pablo Sicilia, Tarantino;  Abel (Ratón, 46’), Kitoko, Chechu, Ferrán Tacón (Perona, 64’); Víctor Bravo y Aridane Santana.
SPORTING DE GIJÓN B
Raúl; Alberto, Orfila, Alain, Menéndez; Jara (Guille Pérez, 75’) Juan Muñiz, Barrera, Mendy; Guerrero (Mera, 86’) y Serrano (Carlinos, 55’).
ÁRBITRO
Antonio Gordillo, del colegio Balear. Expulsó al entrenador visitante Manolo Sánchez. Amonestó por los locales a Tarantino, Sicilia y Ratón; y por los visitantes a Alain, Serrano, Raúl, Barrera, Carlinos, Guerrero, Menéndez y Muñiz.
GOLES
0-1: (21’) Guerrero, tras un rebote. 0-2: (34’) Juan Muñiz, de falta. 1-2 (48’) Aridane, tras un rechace del larguero. 2-2: (77’) Perona, de penalti. 2-3: (83’) Guerrero, tras un rechace de Aragoneses.
INCIDENCIAS
Heliodoro. Terreno de juego en buenas condiciones. Mañana algo fría. Ante 8.352 espectadores. Minuto de silencio en memoria de Héctor Núñez, ex entrenador del CD Tenerife; y Adelardo de la Calle, ex vicepresidente blanquiazul.

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.

Tenerife draw away again and Lugo's coach has sour grapes

Slowly and surely went the Turtle and the Hare ran too fast. Lets see if this is hopw the race to the end of two B works out for Tenerife. A draw away in Lugo was a good result marred only by Castilla's win against Athletico B.
The team started well yesterday and the promise which seems to hold was showing. Kitoko was in central defense which is not his natural position but he worked hard and was well paired with Ayoze. The team fought hard and looked competitive, showing that they are on the right path. Perona nearly scored after a play by Chechu and Zazo. Then Lugo scored and they seemed to grow and had several good chances but the blue and white players fought back finalising just before half time in a play by Victor Bravo with a pass to Perona which he put into the goal.
In the second half Lugo came out strong and controlled the ball but CD Tenerife aslo had chances including one from Kiko Raton after he came on the field. The island team were on a level with the team which up to last round had been leaders.
The game could have been a play off match and showed that CD Tenerife is on the right track.

Game notes

CD LUGO               1 (1)

CD TENERIFE        1 (1)

CD LUGO
Diego Rivas; Aitor, Rubén García (Iván, 80’), Garrido, Manu; Luismi, Pita, Claudio Monti, Belfortti; Ismael (Berodia, 80’) & Belencoso.

CD TENERIFE
Sergio Aragoneses; Cristóbal, Jonay, Medina, Ayoze; Zazo (Tarantino, 58’), Marcos Rodríguez, Chechu (Kiko Ratón, 70’), Víctor Bravo (Nico, 84’); Ferrán Tacón & Perona.

REFEREE
Germán Cid Camacho, from Castilla Leon. A Yellow card for local players Berodia & Garrido; and for visitors Ayoze, Perona, Bravo, Marcos Rodríguez & Tacón.

GOALS
1-0: (23’) Belencoso, with a header. 1-1: (40’) Perona,with a pass by Victor Bravo.

INCIDENTS
Played in the Anxo Carro stadium. The ground was in average condition, on a cold damp morning with 2,500 spectators of which approx 150 were from CD Tenerife.

 Calderon commented that he was pleased with the way the game had been played. The Lugo coach in a fit of sour grapes could only comment that one team went out to play and the other to stop the game. Perhaps no one had told him all is fair in love and war and certainly for the blue and white team this and every game is a battle to go back to professional football.

The next match is at home against Atl Madrid B on Sunday at 12.00

AD Alcorcon 3 - 2 CD Tenerife - Game notes

AD ALCORCÓN 3 (1)
CD TENERIFE 2 (1)
AD ALCORCÓN
Herrera; Nagore (Sanz, 73’), Ángel, Rueda, Babín; Samuel (Gerardo, 68’), Mora, Sales (Jeremy, 68’), Montañez; Borja & Quini.
CD TENERIFE
Sergio Aragoneses; Melli, Bellvís, Pablo Sicilia, Luna; Kitoko, Ricardo, Iriome (Juanlu, 80’), Omar (Julio Álvarez, 46’), Antonio Hidalgo (Mikel Alonso, 67’); & Nino.
REFEREE
Julio Amoedo Chas, from Galicia. Yellow cards for local players Ángel & Nagore; and for visitors Ricardo, Luna, Omar, Kitoko & Bellvís.
GOALS
0-1: (42’) Nino, after a corner. 1-1: (45’) Quini, from a penalty. 1-2: (55’) Iriome, after a pass by Julio Álvarez. 2-2: (75’) Jeremy. 3-2: (82’) Quini.
INCIDENTS
Played in the Santo Domingo stadium. The grass was in good condition. On a sunny morning with 3.000 spectators. A minutes silence was held for Javier Álvarez, the grandfather of local player Quini.

Game Notes - Loss against Cartageña

Not the best game we have played but now we need to forget and move on to next Monday's game against Barcelona B.




FC CARTAGENA 1 (0)
CD TENERIFE 0 (0)
FC CARTAGENA
Casilla; Txiki, Botelho, Cala, Pablo (Schmoller, 70’); Mariano, Rodri (Longás, 61’), José Carlos (Maldonado, 70’), Lafuente; Víctor & Toché.
CD TENERIFE
Sergio Aragoneses; Marc Bertrán, Beranger, Pablo Sicilia, Luna; Kitoko, Antonio Hidalgo (Igor, 69’), Natalio (Kome, 74’), Dubarbier (Omar, 46’), Julio Álvarez; & Nino.
REFEREE
Gil Manzano, from Extremadura. Yellow cards for local players Rodri & Botelho; also for visitors Pablo Sicilia, Julio Álvarez, Natalio & Beranger.
GOAL 1-0: (65’) Toche, from a crossed ball.
INCIDENTS
Played in the Nueva Cartagonova. The grass was in good condition, the afternoon was cold. There were 6000 spectators. CD Tenerife wore the green shirt, white shorts and white socks.

Game notes - Los against Celta de Vigo 1 - 0 CD Tenerife

A last minute goal by  Michu put Celta de Vigo ahead and left Tenerife witout a point after the game in Balaidos.

RC CELTA 1 (0)
CD TENERIFE 0 (0)
RC CELTA
Falcón; Hugo Mallo, Jonathan Vila, Catalá, Roberto Lago, Bustos, Trashorras (Ábalo, 80’), David Rodríguez (Aspas, 68’), López Garai (Michu, 59’) Alex López & De Lucas.
CD TENERIFE
Sergio Aragoneses; Marc Bertrán, Gregory Beranger, Melli, Ezequiel Luna; Kitoko (Mikel Alonso, 67’), Antonio Hidalgo, Natalio (Juanlu, 84’), Dubarbier (Kome, 61’), Julio Álvarez; & Nino.
REFEREE
Miranda Torres, from Catalyuna. Yellow cards for visitors Beranger & Nino.
GOAL
1-0: (88’) Michu, from in front of the goal
INCIDENTS
Played in the Balaídos ground. The ground was in good condition. Warm afternoon with 12,000 spectators. One minutes silence for the death of Ibarreche an ex-keeper of Celta Vigo. CD tenerife wore the green/gold strip.