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Puado: "The best is yet to come"

The striker talks about 200 appearances and this weekend's LaLiga game

Javi Puado's 200 appearances for RCD Espanyol have brought with them a wealth of memories, and the La 21 graduate talked about them in the week after his latest milestone.

Of his debut in the Primera Division, he recounted that it was at Balaídos, against Celta, fulfilling a childhood dream, in a match that ended in a draw.

"That day, August 18th, 2018, was one of the happiest of my life," explains Puado.
"I have had some really beautiful moments to remember forever, like the two promotions and qualifying for the Europa League. There have been others that are much less beautiful, but I have always experienced everything with pride."

He also has a record to his name as the all-time top scorer at the RCDE Stadium, and he puts that down to "the work of my teammates, who helped me achieve it."

As for the present, Puado commented that, against Girona, "we had two points slip through our fingers, but we are on a good run and now the best is yet to come. It's vital that we are all at 100 percent, to try to help the team achieve our objective."

"This Saturday we're away to RCD Mallorca, and they are opponents who are doing well, but we're Espanyol, and we're going to go for the three points. We're out of the relegation zone, but only by two points. We have to keep looking upwards, believe, and do our job well."