Baraja: “This match should be a mirror in which we look at ourselves”

Relieved and completely liberated, he presented himself Ruben Baraja after achieving the first success of the course. “This match has to be a mirror in which we look at ourselves,” commented the coach from Valladolid, reinforcing the need for it to be “a point and a row” and for the players to “keep up and reach the same level” next Tuesday against Osasuna.

“In the previous conversation I told the players that I want to see them smile again”he explained Deckinsisting Valencia’s efforts to beat “a good team” like Girona and achieve the first clean sheet of the season.

“It requires a lot of concentration, to plug in… We were very good, but especially in the second half. We had a ‘click’ to want to go up, to be assertive, to take another step. and to find the match,” commented the coach of Valenciawho congratulated his footballers for their work.

Deck He stressed that “when you win it’s easier to explain” what happened, but he stressed that the match was “very complete in many aspects” and that the footballers “determined what the path, the unity, that can change of the course of the season.”

“They are our children. We have to love them through thick and thin. Today went well and the credit goes to them. We had to encourage them and today they brought out the best they have,” said Baraja, who did not want to personalize Dani Gómez or Luis Rioja, the authors of the goals and preferred to emphasize the performance of the group of team.

So, the technician of Valencia He emphasized the importance of stripping the ‘backpack’ of twelve games without a win and the worst start of the league in history, because “where we come from” and the rival is very important” and because this Saturday “the identity of team is seen , with energy and who is looking for the game.