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"It was an excellent end to the suffering we had"

Sánchez Flores points out that it was a difficult game against a competitive rival

Quique Sánchez Flores, coach of the first blue-and-white team, has been very pleased with Espanyol's victory against R. Betis. "It was an excellent end to the suffering we had. It was a difficult match against a complicated rival that closed the spaces and played at a high intensity. The match gets complicated with the goal against, but then appeared the race of a competitive team that leads us to that mentality of going back and achieving victory", he said.

The Spaniard, who celebrated his 100th victory in the Primera División, stressed that R. Betis is "a competitive team that has closed us down and has not let us play the way we wanted to. The players make a tremendous effort to get results. Now we have to recover and start thinking about the next game".

Sánchez Flores stressed that José Antonio Reyes is a talented and brilliant player and has recognized that victory has meant "a collective joy."