"You don't score a hat trick every day, but the statistic of eleven goals doesn't mean much to me. I knew I could be a starter at Barça, fight for a place, and I'm going for many more goals. My job is to keep making it difficult for the coach,"
"The most important thing, though, is winning on such a difficult pitch. As I always say, Betis is a direct rival at the top, one of those teams that makes things very difficult, and we knew we had to compete from the first minute. It was very important to win, and we knew how to react to their early goal. I think the most important thing was that reaction to the first goal. That's one of our keys to success."
The player downplays the eleven-goal statistic after a hat trick, calling such scoring rare but not defining. The player expects to become a starter at Barça, plans to fight for a place, and aims for many more goals. The player sees his role as creating selection difficulty for the coach. The player stresses that the most important outcome was the win on a difficult pitch. Betis is described as a direct top-tier rival that complicates matches, so the team emphasized competing from the first minute. The team’s response to conceding an early goal is identified as a key component of success.
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