Motivational words spoken by Jonathan Vera after the defeat in Tenerife on Wednesday nobody doubts them, he was confident that he could deliver a “completely different match” at home to the one seen by the YOU in the Heliodorus. García Pimienta expressed his “total conviction” that his players were going to reverse the situation because he could see it in his eyes and he knows “how they work day by day.” Well, Las Palmas in the end fell into the net of their own harangues, as Jony could not finish on the pitch and the coach was not able to understand the meaning of a tie, once again in his career.
Tenerife has not made him proclaim to the four winds that he had a squad beyond the exit of Luis Miguel Ramis when he said that his team is the Real Madrid of the category. The blue and white coach has been able to convey to his team the sense of back and forth and exploited his virtues while UD got lost along the way by trying to compete with the heart rather than with the game philosophy that is presupposed.
Las Palmas paid the toll of having had to make a superhuman effort in the last eleven league days to get to play the Playoff. Much less is it to take away merit, since the leagues reward the regularity of the 42 days – but they tell Eibar and their defeat against bottom Alcorcón on the last day to miss the train of direct promotion. The point is that now it is admitted that UD’s physical condition did not allow them to compete in this promotion phase.
Beyond refereeing analysis, a matter of styles that may be liked more or less, what is certain is that the photograph of yesterday’s final whistle did not include Viera, Jesé or Moleiro on the pitch, the three banners on which the illusion to be able to ascend to Liga Santander.
The door of self-criticism has not yet been opened. The divine aura of Jonathan Viera is a gift for the club, his quality is a blessing for the category, but everything cannot fall on one person, no matter how Messi from the Canary Islands, because it is not fair to him either.
From now on, although the mourning for having to assume the superiority of Tenerife in the direct duel is given shelter, there is room for faith for next season. “We have risen from worse things,” Jony stressed at the conclusion of the match. He is right. But let it not be another of the empty harangues of these weeks. It’s time to reflect and refine.
