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“Alavés competes very well"
Quique Sánchez Flores remarks that "if we are not aware of our limitations, we will not advance"
After the match in San Mamés, Espanyol will close this week with a difficult game against Deportivo Alavés. The squad trained by Quique Sánchez Flores has remarked that the team from Vitoria is doing a good season and reminded that last Wednesday they reserved several starters against Osasuna thinking about this commitment.
"We know the category of the rival, the complexity of the match and we will come out with the idea of competing to the maximum. It is an uncomfortable, difficult, very well organised rival that will force us to make a good match. Alavés competes very well, has memory, knows how to enjoy and is making a fantastic season. Alaves has refreshed their most important players for this match. He has outstanding players for the future like Theo, Camarasa or Llorente, they are a very good team", he said.
Sánchez Flores has invited to turn page and has defended that it is being a "fantastic season". "We, who are better than Alavés, we are sorry despite being in a better situation. It is necessary to have memory and to know what the limitations are; It is important. When we step on the accelerator a bit is because we go hand in hand with the fans to try to fulfill a dream. But we live from reality, you know how complex and difficult it is to take away the site to teams that are prepared to compete at that level. I think it is a lack of intelligence to want to go ahead of your possibilities. Not knowing how to live the moments of happiness that have to live I do not like. This club is in a season that is having many more moments to be happy than sad."
The Espanyol's coach, meanwhile, has accepted the criticism received by the line-up last Tuesday against Athletic Club. "We make the decisions thinking that we are going to win the game, when it does not come out we are sad but it does not disorient us. I make every decision for the better or the worse. Every time we do not win a game, my feeling is that I do not succeed, I'm going over what we did wrong. Those who make decisions are continually on the verge of mistake".