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Press conference
Javi Gracia: “We were looking forward to a win tonight”

“I think we won due to everyone’s hard work, including those who didn’t play this evening. We were looking forward to a win tonight, and this is a feeling we can’t afford to lose. This level of excitement has to keep spurring us on each day.”

“We took the lead in this game as we got off to a good start, we gave our all and scored two early goals that we haven’t been capable of doing.  We lost our advantage fairly quickly in what was an avoidable situation.  The team continued to fight for the game and were later down to 10 men, so our focus was on a strong defence and hard work in order to sentence the match.”

“I’m thrilled with the result as I can again see the union with our fans; we all suffer in the tough times and enjoy the victories.”

“Following tonight’s result we’ll keep our head held high and take a deep breath, as we’ve made an important step forward to buck our past trend, but we must continue like this.  I think this win will liberate us and help to show who we are; some days we win, others we don’t, but until now football hasn’t been fair to us.”