In El Sadar’s press room, Pepe Mel looked at the bright side of drawing 2-2 against Osasuna: “The team has improved and we’re one point away”.

The Deportivista coach confessed that he congratulated the players after the match and told them that they had to prepare the game against Espanyol very well.

“Today, I saw they wanted to play, they had a plan, they wanted to do things, we came back from a result in a crucial game which went badly in the 4th minute. The players did what I asked them to do”, he added.

Speaking about the fans, Pepe Mel acknowledged, “There’s nobody unhappier than us”. However, he did say “if they look at the game coldly, you cannot throw anything in their face, except for two dead-ball situations”.