“There is an illusion that I haven’t seen for a long time”

Objective: 21M. The UD Las Palmas is overcoming the week day by day to arrive in the best conditions for next Saturday. With an atmosphere of illusion that is breathed in every corner of Gran Canariathe yellow team tries to isolate itself from that bubble to focus solely on winning the Real Oviedo: “We have to leave from the tranquility because it will be a very long game. If we and the fans think that we are going to win it from minute one, we are very wrong. In 90′ or 94′ that the game has we have to win it; we have no other”, sentenced Jonathan Viera during his appearance in the press room.

As a result of this environment, it is impossible not to think about what happened on June 21, 2015 when the Gran Canaria Stadium He presented his best entrance -with the exception of 2006 against Rayo Vallecano- and, above all, his best animation. For Vera, the aroma that is perceived for the ‘final’ this weekend is different from everything that has gone before: “I have experienced many important matches at the stadium. It is true that I have a different feeling now, a feeling of illusion that I haven’t seen for a long time. That makes me very happy. People are seeing that the team is making a great effort at home and away and people see that and notice it. So much so that they are going to fill the stadium; It makes me very happy to see the enthusiasm of the people”.

The first to reveal the instructions of the locker room leader was Benito: “Jonathan always told us that you had to get used to winning and competing”, in the same line continued Garcia Pepper: “If we want to achieve ambitious goals, we have to get used to winning.” Today, Jonathan Viera, predicts that the team is already prepared for the winning DNA mentality: “It is very difficult to get used to winning, that is why there are very few teams that win practically everything and the rest, well, we don’t win that many. I always tell you, it’s fucking winning, winning and winning and arriving the next weekend and having the mind set on winning again because the mind relaxes; It is the law of life. Now I do see a team mentally prepared for what is coming. I believe and trust that we are truly prepared”.

Jesé and Pimienta, blessed by Viera

The ’21’ also had time to praise the current coaching staff and give them their approval so that They will continue to lead the insular bench: “For me, it is an incredible coaching staff. They work very well, they are people of integrity and that is very important in football today. I cannot renew them because I am not the president, but I have said it everywhere: they are an incredible coaching staff and I hope they last many years here. They are coaches who bet on young people and it doesn’t matter what your name is because if you have to play you’re going to play”.

Although much has been said about Jesse Due to his reaction to being traded against Alcorcón, Viera has closed ranks around his teammate and entrusted him with a mission for 21M: “He knows perfectly well how important he is to the team, what we are playing for on Saturday and surely on Saturday he will score goal. He is going to play a very good game and he is going to score a goal. There are no debates here. From here I tell him calm down, He’s going to score a goal and we’re going to win”.