Sam Shashoua put hope to Tenerife in Almería. The Briton managed, with his penalty goal, to get Tenerife into the game and have a chance to tie. What's more, it was 2-2 in his boots, but the Almeria goalkeeper pulled out a prodigious hand that avoided leveling the score. Thus, with his success, the attacker has become the team's top scorer with two goals.
In any case, Sam ended a very good scoring streak with Tenerife since Friday was the first time that Tenerife lost when he saw the door. The last time he got it right, for example, was in Valladolid and in that match, the Blue and Whites won 0-2. On this occasion, despite scoring 2-1, Ramis's men fell in the Mediterranean Games (3-1).
The fall on Andalusian soil also confirmed how bad it is for Tenerife to play on Friday since he has lost in ten of the last 13 games he played on that day. “You have to keep a cool head, you have to analyze how the matches have been lost. You have to continue working as before because the results will continue to come,” said Ruben Diez after the defeat, who played a large part of the match in Almería replacing Enric Gallego .
“We have not lowered our arms and we had courage until we had the option of achieving 2-2,” he admitted, “but the intervention of the goalkeeper prevented it. We faced each other with a very powerful team, and we knew that there would be sections of the game that we would have to suffer. There were phases that we controlled the game ”.
The squad returned home on Saturday afternoon after exercising in Almería and this Sunday they had their rest day. The return to training is scheduled for Monday at 10:00 am at the El Mundialito facilities, behind closed doors. The next commitment will be on Saturday in Huesca.