The Tenerife coach, Pepe Melstated that next Sunday’s match in Castellón is “special” because of the way the rival approaches matches, in an offensive way, and they know it, they know what they want to do at the Castalia stadium to try to score.
He assured that his relationship with the majority shareholder of the club, Jose Miguel Garridoit’s good, although he only talked to him “twice” but he already gave him “confidence” because he was already “excited” about taking care of the team.
The Madrid coach gave the example of Cádiz and Racing de Santander, teams that They were victorious from the Albinegro fiefdomby 1-3 and 0-1, respectively.
After his second week of training in Tenerife, Mel believes that something “advanced” in the idea of play they aim to instill among footballers, and hopes it will be reflected on Sunday against a rival who is “not of the natural standard of others” because of the risk he takes in his techniques.
“It does different things and you have two choices: adapt to that or set the pace yourself. We We also have the idea to defend forwards, and be key players, not so much on the ball, but knowing when you should go forward and when you should create more efficiency,” he explained.
Mel tries to ensure that his players, “on the forced march”, as the competition progresses, assimilate his way of looking at football, which he recognizes as different from Tenerife’s former coacheslike Luis Miguel Ramis, Asier Garitano and Óscar Cano, whom he replaced last week.
“If I can convince the players that this way is what will take us forward, I won the first matchto win the war,” he said.
Mel said Since last Monday, the lineup that he will present this coming Sunday in Castellón is clear to him “but not the players,” because for him “being competitive is very important.”
As for proper names, he pointed that out Luismi Cruz has to dedicate himself to the gameeither on the right wing or as a midfielder.
to the extreme Colombian Marlos Morenothat he had seven years ago at Deportivo de La Coruña, told him that “he will play a lot.”
The Madrid coach assures that in professional sports “winning is everything” and hopes that the first blue and white victory will come in Castellón, where he played two seasons, at the end of the 80s.
He remembered that he definitely scored the winning goal of Albinegra in last precedent between both teams in Castalia.
Source: La Verdad
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