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"We didn’t expect these final"

Quique Sanchez Flores regrets that the match escaped in the last three minutes

Espanyol’s manager Quique Sánchez Flores has been disappointed by the fatal outcome. "It is very difficult to explain it. It is ungrateful, cruel though football has these things. Anyway, we did not expect an outcome like this", he said. "It's very hard. Is very hard and at the same time is difficult to explain. The game should have been finished with a tie, but we have to accept it. It is inexplicable: it seems that we are not able to read in three minutes what did do the previous 90”, he said. "It's difficult to explain what happened in the end. The result is not due to the performance of players. I worry about the mentality of the players knowing they have given the maximum encounter such an adverse outcome."

Quique has acknowledged that his team has received too many dislikes in the final minutes in matches at home and pointed out that "We had two errors on the same play and they ended us very happy and very sad".

The coach believes the team pushed "well although we had any complications to develop" and said that "the first idea is to work well defensively to advance in other situations. The idea is to be an intense block, defend well and uncomfortable opponent and I think we were able to convey that."