Tricolour coach Ferran Costa has addressed the media at the press conference before facing Athletic Club B in the first match of the second round of the championship.
#ParauladeMíster | Pre-match vs Athletic B
"The week has been like all weeks after losing: the first days were difficult, with a lot of self-criticism, analyzing and digesting very well everything that happened to us, and a second part where you start thinking about Sunday's match, very demanding against a very good team which the data says should bring many more points and with players of a very high level. We saw it there in the first game, they demand the most from you."
"I'm sitting here and I'm very clear about why I'm here and where my energy is going. What's obsessing me right now is that we're seven teams on four points and my obsession is to place the team as high as possible in this fight and improve the squad. That's my obsession. And when you come from losing what you do is get to work earlier and leave even later."
"There's not much to talk about: I'm sitting here and if that's the case it's because we have a game on Sunday and we want to win it. My energy is in understanding that we're in a very demanding season, with very ambitious goals and, obviously, losing feels worse than winning. We're seven teams fighting in a demanding and unforgiving category. And what we have to do is place ourselves in the best possible way in this fight."
"We arrive on Sunday with only one thing in mind: beating Athletic. It was a team that in the first round we were unable to beat with a mistake that threw the whole match into the air where we had countless chances. If we want to be at the top, this is something we have to put in our minds because it is how big teams behave. This is what we want: finishing preparing well for Sunday's match and giving our fans a victory."
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