The RCDE Stadium is a stronghold for Espanyol. Real Madrid and Real Sociedad, the first two in the championship, have fallen at the Blue and White home, and Vicente Moreno highlights the role of the team and its commitment: “The key is the fans, how they push and what the players notice. They are extraordinary numbers. If you look back there are even some who escape. We hope away from home to add victories and if we improve the year it could be a good one. “
The coach valued a victory against a great rival, one of the best that has passed through the Blue and White stadium: “We had to go to the limit, we have to put it in value … if they won they became leaders, they did not lose from matchday 1. Winning the game with superiority did not touch, it was going to the limit. You did not have to get out of the game plan. I think that victory is fair. “
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Going out of his habit a bit, the Valencian coach commented on the annulled goal that “the ball is up to the referee and the match must be stopped, or at least I understand it that way.” Then he dedicated himself to praising the work of his team : “We are talking about a high level team. Sometimes it is given more value against these teams, it is normal, but they go to the limit, they leave everything and that is important. I think we do a lot of things well.”Moreno explained.
Moreno insisted that “We deserved the result, like them”, But the derby “does not come back, I am still convinced that with the same script we would win nine out of ten games, but each one explains his film.” In spite of everything, the coach stressed about whether the team looks to Europe that “we don’t do it, it wouldn’t give us any options at all, we have to focus on each game, and now it’s the Cup.”
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“Nothing to reproach, I understand that we were better”
The first to appear was Imanol Alguacil, that he sees how his Real Sociedad accumulates two consecutive defeats, and commented on the meeting that “The team played a great game once again. I have nothing to reproach anyone, I understand that we were better, but it’s not about that but about winning and being right in the areas. Espanyol beat us. We were able to score and we didn’t. we did”.
The Real coach elaborated on the good match of his team despite considerable casualties. “It will be like that. It is not the first time that Silva and Merino are not there. The team does not care that one and the other are not there. There are no excuses. We don’t deserve defeat, but it’s about getting it right. I take responsibility, we have to improve to give continuity to the streak. We play well, we do a lot of good but if you don’t finish or hit it, it’s more complicated, “he argued.
This lack of goal does not worry him: “Last year the same thing happened at the beginning, then we were the third who scored the most. Let’s generate and we have players to score, and we will. We are not at the best moment. Sometimes because we lack confidence, or aggressiveness, or control. We lack a goal “. Nor does he want to value the controversial play in which Mateu Lahoz cancels Espanyol a little: “I never value, nor will I, forgive me. Ask Mateu. I will only answer about the match.”