Match against Tenerife and looking askance at the other rivals to avoid relegation. “The first thing is our game against Tenerife. It will be hard like everyone since I arrived. We can’t trust. They are playing the playoff and we are playing the permanence. It will be a tough game for both of them. You have to play it. We worked very well during the week and let’s see how it goes”.
Antonin subject. “It is a topic that did not occupy me for more than five minutes. The most important thing is the group. The group is above individualities. I made no decision, period. He already knows it. You don’t have to go around too much. He is not going to be summoned and what he had to say I already told him. He came prepared for this question. It is not worth talking more than ten seconds on the subject.
Work week. “The players are fine. We had a good week. That does not surprise me. Little prize for how well they train and that pisses me off. The boys throw themselves into training and deserve more rewards because they work hard and don’t give up”.
injuries. “Andrés Caro trained and he’s fine, Ramón too. Casualties have an influence because I want to have the soldiers ready to decide who is the best for each game and I can’t. But I’m not complaining. It is what it is and it is what touches us. This influences when we are as we are. Jairo is also available. Luis Muñoz returns to the call. If they tell me the line-up of the rival team it would be an advantage… that’s why I don’t like to say who is going to play or not. That can change a lot of things. Luis Munoz is doing very well. It’s a tremendous joy like that of Pablo Chavarría who has participated in all the training sessions after playing a few minutes last week”.
Does the option of sleeping on the descent scare you? “And what is the use of putting ourselves into that plan?”
Subsidiary players. “Two more guys came up this week and we’ll need one this coming week.”
Pablo Guede with his assistants.
Mariano Well
Steps back? “With Las Palmas we took a step back and with Oviedo it was a difficult game. I didn’t feel that much. It took us a little bit to generate because it was the first game that we didn’t score”.
The bands. Ishmael? Victor Gomez? “If I say who is going to play right-back, I am giving the coach an advantage because they are two completely different full-backs”.
Risk. “Last week he gave a message to the group that took it barbaric and it is not appropriate for me to say it here. If I can tell Yoda the people that we are going to leave everything and more to achieve the objective. Let no one doubt it. We will do everything so that Málaga continues in the Second Division. We need everyone.”
Four casualties in Tenerife. Shashoua. Larrea, Munoz and Juan Soriano. “It doesn’t change the form or the decision of how we have to go to the field to face that game”.
What would happen from that go to go all wrong? “What if… what if… what if…? I don’t know. Today it’s up to us. I don’t waste time on ‘what if…’. On Sunday, when the game ends, they ask me what happened”
Has your idea of the template changed? “What I felt is as it is.”
Absence from Jozabed’s injury. “Not just Jozabed. All the soldiers that we were falling were reducing us in specific situations of each game. In the game against Oviedo we needed two attacking full-backs and Víctor had dropped. It is not so much the proper name but the position that we have to face. I touched the team 85% more due to circumstances”.
Tenerife. “A very strong team defensively that doesn’t get disarmed or despair because they are very clear about what they play in defense. I wait for them with many people in attack because they need the points. It will be a round trip match. He’s very clear about what he’s playing.”