CD Tenerife vs Getafe Match Preview
Estadio Heliodoro Rodriguez, Sunday 11.00AM
Tenerife’s fantastic result against Sporting Gijon, which was the first away from home this season, has allowed the islanders to also continue dreaming with staying up with the big boys next year. They are only three points away and with Malaga and Valladolid playing against each other, a victory could be worth more than only three points.
Canary players like Alfaro have urged the fans to support them to the maximum and wants to see a full house at the Heliodoro on Sunday. The team will look to continue with its great improvement at the back and will want to not concede a goal for the third game running.
Michel’s Getafe was the only team fighting for the Europa League that managed to grab a victory in the last fixture, and what a victory. It was against Villareal, a direct rival towards the European objective, which has allowed the team to also overtake Villareal and place itself, seventh one point behind Bilbao.
The good news for the Madrilian team continue as they should have available for the trip to Santa Cruz two important players like Miguel Torres and Derek Boateng who both seem to have recovered from their injuries.
We can expect a very exciting game as both teams will be looking for a very important victory as dropping any points would dent hopes of both teams of achieving their corresponding objectives.
CD Tenerife vs Getafe Match Report
Nino was the absolute star of the game scoring a fantastic hat-trick which allow Tenerife to win three golden points and takes full benefit of the other results of Matchday 33 as they were the only team to win down at the bottom.
However it was Getafe who went ahead with a Pedro Leon goal who slotted into the right hand corner Miku’s pass from the right hand side. Getafe could have gone 2-0 up a few minutes later but Manu del Moral after a solo play missed in front of goal the one on one against Sergio Aragoneses.
Tenerife equalized in the first chance they had, a cross from the right from Roman Martinez was head-erred in by Nino who was unmarked inside the box just in front of goal. Tenerife could have gone ahead before the break but Codina made a magnificent save from Alfaro’s shot just on the verge of the box.
The second half started with the injury of Getafe’s experienced central defender Belenguer, this episode may have impacted on the final result as Michel had no central defenders on the bench and had to play full back Miguel Torres at the heart of the defense.
In the 69th minute Nino got his second after he controlled on his own magnificently a ball inside the box and slotted diagonally into the bottom right hand corner. Getafe drew with a header from Casquero after a precise cross from Cortes from the right. However the scores did not stay even to long as in the next action Nino scored his hat-trick after Alfaro put a great through ball and Nino dribbled the keeper and scored the winner.
