Tenerife Diary: Day Six

Bobby Reid, not for the first this summer, is the star of the show – scoring twice and assisting Famara Diédhiou’s first goal in City colours.

Eros Pisano, Bailey Wright and Freddie Hinds are also on target. It’s good to see Freddie take his prolific goalscoring form from training into a competitive game.

Suddenly, from spending much of the day counting down the hours, we’ve got quite a rush on our hands, as by now it’s 8pm and we’ve only got an hour and 15 minutes before the coach leaves from the hotel to Playa de las Américas for our staff and players team bonding night out.

Somehow, and I’m not sure how, we plough through quick chats with Johnson, Reid and Diédhiou, upload the match report, interviews, gallery and highlights, run back to the hotel, demolish half a dozen slices of pizza, shower, change and get ourselves on the coach before 9.15pm.

As you can imagine, the evening is a lot of fun. Pisano and Diédhiou are joined by youngsters and first time City tourists Hinds and Joe Morrell in singing their initiation songs, and everybody behaves themselves without failing to have a good time.

It’s a very early start on Monday for the flight home and it’s certainly for the best that we have an extra day in between – with some needing more time to recover than others!