Morata: “I’m very proud”

Álvaro Morata, captain of the Spanish team, scored his first international hat-trick against Georgia, the second of his career, to reach 33 goals in the senior team as their fifth leading scorer, “very proud” of what he has achieved and of wanting to score many “more goals”.

Morata is approaching 35 goals David Silva and the 38 of Fernando Torres to enter the Spanish team’s scorers’ podium. Still far from the record holder’s 59, David Villa; and the 44 of Raul Gonzalez.

“I hope we continue, I’m very happy and I’m grateful to all my friends. I will invite Fabián to eat because he can take a shot and give me the goal. Mikel Merino also gave me a fantastic pass and the pass from Marco (Asensio) What do I say? “I’m very proud to play for the national team and I hope many more goals,” he said on Teledeporte.

Morata valued the Spain’s victory over Georgia (1-7)where they straighten their path to the qualifying phase for Euro 2024 and leave behind the defeat suffered in the visit to Scotland.

“This is a major victory in the qualification phase for us. Georgia theoretically should be on top and make many rivals suffer in their stadium. “We came out well, everything went well, we had a good rhythm and we played a great game,” he analyzed.

“You always have to go out to win with the same attitude and that will be the case against Cyprus because we represent Spain and it’s amazing every time we wear this shirt,” he added.

In its part, Martin Zubimendi, He was satisfied with his contribution in the second half entering the game and stopped the euphoria that occurs after a win like the one signed in Tbilisi.

“The message is clear, despite scoring goals, we want to keep stepping on the accelerator. We had the maturity to calm down the game and even scored a few goals in the second half,” he said.

“These results remain but they will not confuse us, We must go step by step, We are Spain and we have to finish at the top by qualifying,” he said.