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Rubén Castro: “It was a perfect night”

The striker, who today became the top national scorer in the Spanish professional leagues with a brace, held a press conference after the match. “Hopefully this will be a turning point, the first step to achieving salvation; I'm sure we can do it,” he sta

After the match against Real Zaragoza, the Canary Islands-born striker was delighted as “the first thing is the team's victory” and “we were playing for our lives. Everything went well, the team won, and I got the record I was determined to get. It was a perfect night,” he said.

He also added that it’s important to have achieved the objective “with our fans, who haven’t seen the team win for a long time. And then, I scored two goals that led me to surpass the maximum scorer mark. It was a perfect night,” he explained.

In relation to the team’s situation: “I have believed from the beginning,” he affirmed. “Although we haven’t been winning, we trust the team and the fans. There are 15 matches left, so there’s a long way to go. Today it was our time to win and we did,” he added.

Lastly, Rubén talked about the fans. On a Monday night, La Rosaleda hosted more than 16,000 supporters. “We know that with them by our side, everything will be much easier. We need the support of our people, today we saw it again,” he concluded.