The Tenerife coach, Pepe Melhas stated that next Sunday’s match in Castellón is “special” because of the way the rival approaches the matches, in an offensive manner, and knowing this, they know what they want to do in the Castalia stadium to try to score points. .
He has assured that his relationship with the club’s majority shareholder, Jose Miguel Garridois good, although he has only spoken to him “twice” but he has given him “confidence” because he was “excited” for him to take charge of the team.
The Madrid coach has given the example of Cádiz and Racing de Santander, teams that They emerged victorious from the albinegro fiefdomby 1-3 and 0-1, respectively.
After his second week of training with Tenerife, Mel believes that have “advanced” in the idea of play that they aim to instill to the footballers, and hopes that it will be reflected on Sunday against a rival who “is not in the natural norm of the others” due to the risk he takes in his approaches.
“It does different things and you have two options: adapt to that or set the pace yourself. We We also have the idea of defending forward, and being protagonists, not so much with the ball, but knowing when you should go forward and when you should create superiority,” he explained.
Mel tries to ensure that his players, “at forced marches”, because the competition advances, assimilate his way of seeing football, which he recognizes is different from that of the previous Tenerife 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 is going to make us move forward, I will have already won the first battleto then win the war,” he noted.
Mel said that Since last Monday he has been clear about the lineup he will present this coming Sunday in Castellón “but not the players,” because for him “competitiveness is very important.”
Regarding proper names, he has pointed out that Luismi Cruz needs to offer himself more in the gameeither on the right wing or as a midfielder.
to the extreme Colombian Marlos Morenowhom he had seven years ago at Deportivo de La Coruña, has told him that “he is going to 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 for two seasons, at the end of the 80s.
He recalled that he scored precisely the goal of the Albinegra victory in the last precedent between both teams in Castalia.