The new coach of CD Tenerife, Pepe Melexpressed this Tuesday in his official presentation the desire for his team to defend “forward”, regain lost confidence and be “protagonist” in battlesas well as a “generational change”, with a commitment to young players for the future.
The coach of Madrid not only gave his opinion on the current team, where he praised Dylan Perera, who is now injured, “a fantastic player”, as he said, but he also revealed some news, such as striker Ángel Rodríguez was injured for several weeksso he will appear next Sunday against Sporting de Gijón at the Heliodoro Rodríguez López stadium.
Mel said at the press conference that, as he has done throughout his long career as a coach, he will look to the quarry, where considering that “the sense of belonging” is very importantand he recalled that during his previous spell in Tenerife, in 2001, he gave players such as Acorán and Vitolo their debut in the First Division.
After just one point in five games in LaLiga Hypermotion, Tenerife’s new coach finds himself in a locker room with diminished confidencewhich he will try to recover, but he told the footballers that many of them are “experienced” and should know that the important thing is to “beat Sporting on Sunday”, and they have to “prepare” for it.
Mel assures that the quarry in the Canary Islands has “incredible potential”, that you need to “know how to work”, and that the in-house technicians have already put names on the table “that we will see”, although not he put aside the that the club includes a midfielderbecause it sees a shortage in that area, although there is doubt in the market for free players, and also with the winter deadline opening in January 2025.
In his proposal for the game, the Madrid coach did not hide that his idea was to “defend the forward, be the protagonist and brave, put the rival in their field and look for the goal from minute 1″, and also acknowledges that there will be “things that change”, with the goal that the defeat in Tenerife “will be expensive”, because the rival will “have to spend”.
Mel gave some hints about his tactical intentions with team names, like Teto Martín, who for him “is a midfielder, with me he will always play inside, not on the wing.”
He also assured that the youth “need to step forward and take the lead.” generational change to form a team“, giving an example that is “very close to here”, UD Las Palmas, which he taught for four years.
Now, he has clarified that he is not going to give anything away: “If the player gives the level, he will play, I don’t care if he is 16 or 17 years old,” he stressed.
Mel does not find it convenient to set goals such as promotion, but to reach this season “as high as possible” and try, after a bad start in the league, “to finish the movie in a different way.”
The Madrid coach expects his players to leave the atmosphere because of the demonstration planned before next Sunday’s game, outside the stadium, to protest the management of the club’s largest shareholder, José Miguel Garrido.
“We prepared breakfast-lunch before the game because of the schedule,” he said in that sense, because the clash against Sporting de Gijón starts at 1:00 pm
Source: La Verdad
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