Ferran Costa: “I will leave with pride”

With no difference in his usual speech, Ferran Costa attached great importance to the promise of their players to achieve a very creditable draw (1-1) against a rival like Espanyol playing for promotion. The Andorra coach marches with “bestial pride” for the game played by the ‘tricolors’ and wants to thank the support of the fans who attended in large numbers at the Stage Front Stadium.

Asked about how to approach the last six finals after a great game like today, Costa is very clear: “We will do it by insisting and playing like today. First I want to thank all the fans who came here today. We feel that we are close to them, they have helped us a lot and we are on this path together,” he stated, highlighting that “Team commitment has been fierce, great teamwork has been accomplished and we are very good with the ball.”

The first half for Andorra was clinical, without giving the Spanish any chances create danger to Ratti’s goal, But then we had to suffer more: “In the first half we managed it well, and in the second we knew how to defend the forward and work as a block. “We knew we were going to a very complicated field, against a good team with very good players,” Costa reflectedwho lived the game very intensely from the technical area.

A point that, for a while, is not useful to get out of the bottom of the classification, tied with Villarreal B, but that could be useful at the end of the season depending on how the competition goes. “What we cannot do is count each day. We need to accumulate merits and efforts, in addition to gaining faith and confidence. That’s what the players see,” explained the coach. “It’s a matter of football, and today the team was very serious, they took the initiative under pressure and we had the personality to be able to attract the rival. We deliver a sense of danger and people march home proud of the team.

For all this, The Castelldefels coach will also leave Cornellà happy: “The feeling of pride that I have for the work that the team has done is incredible and we have to insist. Today’s match reaffirms our beliefs. I have a lot of faith in this group and it is because they sent it to me,” he reaffirmed. “What I’m proud of is that the people pushed us from the outside and we responded. It’s the team’s reaction after the goal.”

Andorra now face two consecutive days at home against Racing, who are also lost in the fight for promotion to the First Division, and Albacete, in the relegation zone. “Beyond the calendar, we go every day. We need to absorb the things that make us grow as a team to give it the highest importance. The league is hypercompetitive, all the rivals are doing a lot of things and our respect for them will be the highest. But our conviction that we can beat anyone is also total,” he concluded, ending by asking that “we need our people because we will give everything, because our lives are at stake.”