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"To win FC Barcelona you have to make a very, very good game"

Sanchez Flores has indicated that the key to being able to carry out the game was in the feeling

Espanyol won their first ever victory at the RCDE Stadium. A goal by Melendo allows the white and blue team to face a certain advantage although Quique Sánchez Flores believes that FC Barcelona is still the favourite. "The first part has been an exercise in resistance. We knew that in the second half we would have more options to take the team forward. We were more effective with Leo in the field, we had more forward, but for this to happen, we had to be very good the first 45 minutes. We thought that you had to do two parts of 90 minutes. To reach the next game with hope, we had to achieve an acceptable result. It will not give us to speculate and we will have to go to make a good match to give them complete happiness. You have to accompany many things. The players played with intelligence to get where we wanted with fresh legs”, he said.

Sánchez Flores said that it is "important for the history of the club: to knock down those numbers, we put the counter to zero. It is an immense joy and great satisfaction". The coach has also been very happy for Melendo, the author of the goal. "He is with us from prebenjamines. That he scores and signs the victory is fantastic. He is a mentally strong boy and it is fantastic that he has been able to knock down FC Barcelona with a goal", he said.

"The guys have understood the game phenomenally. In the feeling of the party was the solution. FC Barcelona is still a favorite, but no one can take away the illusion", he said.