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"Details decide"
Víctor Sánchez said that he did not expect to lose to Alavés
Day of analysis and reflection. After the defeat against Alavés, Víctor Sánchez has assessed the effects of the setback in Vitoria. The player does not think that Espanyol is the aspirin team again and said that the details end up deciding the matches. "In previous years it was difficult for us to win teams below us, but last year it was not like that. This season is the first game that we lost against a team that is below us. We did not expect such a result. It was our first bad game away from home. Against Barça and Madrid it is difficult to win, but against Sevilla, Villarreal and Real Sociedad were good matches. We have to understand that in a such a balanced small details make the difference. If they didn’t score in the first minute and we stay with 11, the game changes. I think we were better than them anyway, even with ten, but it's difficult when a team takes the lead and then only defend themselves", he said.
Víctor Sánchez said that he does not like to arrive at the break with a defeat. "It was very important to win, because such a score places you in the top of the classification. We would have been ninth, just one point under the seventh", he said. In this sense, the back right winger has indicated that "the feeling we all have is that under normal circumstances we would have won. We are frustrated, it has been a hard blow. But we have to win the two games that come at home and we'll turn the tables around".
For Victor, one of the aspects in which the team should improve is in the positional game. "Last year we finished better than we are now in controlling the games and in having possession. Now we have more than a little step to have control on the matches. This goes in phases. The team is coupling and improving, but still against teams that are ahead and lock themselves, it still costs us to generate imbalances and occasions", he said. Likewise, he has acknowledged that scoring records are not the best and that the team is lacking "that last pass, having more presence in the opposite area, arriving more clearly... It is costing us more than last year, but we will recover. Our base is to defend well, if we do that we always have chances to score. It is a matter of preferred options. We have to rely again on making good games defensively, by knowing what we are doing. "