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Mixed feelings

Quique Sanchez Flores pointed out the good start of the team and the reaction after the break

Espanyol has drawn against Eibar thanks to a goal from Leo Baptistao. The blue and white team has shown their best performance in the first few minutes, as the manager Quique Sánchez Flores said, but has again become fragile in defense and has reached the break with a distinct disadvantage. The final draw leaves Espanyol coach with a bittersweet taste.

"I think we were doing the best 20 minutes of the season, but the situation is complicated. I hoped and expected something like this one. I thought that in the final minutes we could get a positive situation”, he said. Sanchez Flores pointed out that the team is "ready to compete" and described as "inexplicable" that Eibar had a 0-3 advantage at the break. "We played very well, deep, we have finished and put rival in his field. With Eibar’s goal the mistakes arrive and then we had an own goal and everything has been very negative and uncomfortable", he said.

The coach said that "we wanted to win and we have not succeeded”. Sánchez Flores believes that the point can "be good. We need a turning point and although it is not the thought, it is necessary to believe, imagine what you want and positivize thoughts".