Real Oviedo defender, Christian Fernández, appeared in the Press Room at El Requexón this morning.

The centre back, who trained separately from the team today, explained that, “it’s just a precaution. We will try to be available to train tomorrow. I am ready for any battle, and especially now that the moment of truth is coming. This is when all footballers want to play; when you are fighting for your targets.”

With respect to the match against Barcelona B, the defender highlighted that, “the aim was to get the three points to break the winless run, but I think that the feeling around the team was good. If anyone was going to win that match, then it was us. We were able to get the ball off them and dominate in all areas of the game, but we needed to be more clinical in their box. We achieved it on one occasion, but we were unlucky that it was disallowed. We’ve been missing a slice of luck and need to be more clinical as we are finding it harder to score now than at other times.”

Christian Fernández also declared that the team should “focus on ourselves and leave areas we don’t dominate to one side. We need to compete every week and get the three points. We must train with the same willingness,
intensity, and excitement as we have been all season. Sooner or later the results will begin to arrive again, because, having seen the team train every day and our complete commitment, we know they have to. However, football is like that sometimes. We have similar numbers as we had during the first half of the season, and if that continues then we will be fighting for the objectives we all want at the end of the season. We are aware and realistic about it being difficult, particularly seeing the state of the table. Teams who seemed out of it are now back in it and have just as much chance as anybody else.”

Regarding the upcoming trip to face CD Tenerife, Christian commented that, “it always seems to carry an extra difficulty. I have lived through it myself, having played for Las Palmas, and you do notice something different there. It is going to be a difficult match. If they win it will reinforce their chances of fighting until the end, while it would mean we ended our run of four games without a win and stay in the playoff places. It has become more difficult with the number of teams involved. There a lot of games to go, a lot to fight for, and nothing is decided yet,” he concluded.