Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Tenerife 5th with 69 points, Fuenlabrada 21st with 33, 36 apart. Recent form told a different story for Tenerife: only 12th in the league over the last five rounds despite sitting 5th. Per game in the league, Tenerife were scoring 1.26 and conceding 0.88, Fuenlabrada 0.93 and 1.55, against a competition average of 1.21 goals per team per game.
Defeat had followed defeat for Fuenlabrada — three in succession.
5 meetings are on record — 1 won by Tenerife, 2 by Fuenlabrada, 2 drawn, at 1.8 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 20% of meetings won. More than two goals is the exception here — seen in 20% of meetings.
The venue was Estadio Heliodoro Rodríguez Lopéz in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, with room for 22,824 spectators. I. Caparrós Hernández officiated: 58 games logged, averaging 2.5 yellow cards each. On the scoreboard, Tenerife led 2-0 at the break; 2 second-half goals set the final 3-1.