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Javi Gracia: “Our team is brave”

The Blue and Whites’ coach says in the run-up to Real Madrid: “Our team is brave, hard-working and the support of our fans makes us better.”

Enthusiasm

“Our fans are faithful, constant, but also reasonable, as they know the difficulty of competing against a squad like we are tomorrow.  However, the excitement is palpable, and our ambition has to be in accordance with the enthusiasm of our fans.”

Local team

“It’s essential to affront home games with this push from the fans, as their support helps us to create options against this type of rival.”

First leg

“Against Real Madrid you can’t exclusively defend as you will possibly lose the match.  We need to find the right balance in order to be aggressive on the attack.  It’s also important that the goalkeepers of teams who come up against Real Madrid are successful as it’ll be demanding.”

Courage

“Our team is brave, hard-working and has a series of virtues that with confidence and the support of our fans, will make us a better team and better players.  These are our options to compete to the maximum and not think further ahead than the match we’re facing now.  This is the reasoning behind our recent successes, and despite our last result, we hope to return to winning ways as the image of the team is still good.”