Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE).- The captain of UD Las Palmas, Jonathan Viera, has assured that the yellow team will play “much more” than CD Tenerife in next Saturday’s derby at the Heliodoro Rodríguez López stadium, against a rival that in his opinion will try to win to fix an irregular season.
The attacker of the yellow team said this Thursday in a press conference that “if there is a team that plays much more, it is us”, and for this reason they must enter the game “with intensity”, but also “with calm”.
The footballer from Gran Canaria has stressed that they should not stray from the script that has kept them at the top of the LaLiga SmartBank rankings throughout the season, something that he considers “a very great merit that people should value”, and warns that something should be changed now it would get them “nowhere good”.
Viera is surprised that Tenerife has maintained an irregular trajectory this season “because they have a better team than what the table reflects, they maintain the block of last year and they have strengthened well”, and for this reason they believe that to make up the campaign they will want to give “a joy” to his fans.
“In their field they are going to push us and make things difficult, in these matches the classification does not say anything, everything is even, and they will want to beat us because the year has not gone very well for them, and there will be a lot of hope for their people to be happy. beat us,” he explained.
It will be his return to Heliodoro after that ‘play-off’ where his phrase “I see a lot of parties here” went viral, which he has once again clarified that he did not say it with the intention of disrespecting anyone, although he admits that the reception “It’s not going to be good, but it never has been”, and he is only concerned with “the field, playing well and winning”.
Viera understands that there are other good teams “that we knew were going to squeeze us”, and that is why “there is pressure” in this last stretch of the league, but he believes that they are “managing it well” after “learning” from what happened during the course former.
“I sign and win the last game and go up. We cannot throw away the year we are having, let others take it away from us, but we cannot throw it away ”, he expressed.
Viera does not know if it will be his last derby at Heliodoro if both teams play in different categories next season.
“I am 33 years old, I have time left on my contract and things will get more and more difficult, we will see, but my intention is to continue here for a long time,” he said, with the firm intention of achieving a second promotion to the First Division that for him it would be “more special” than the one achieved in the 2014-2015 season. EFE