Racing Coach Muñiz Hails Winning Spirit After Comeback

Racing Santander looked for all the world like they were going to be overrun by PSG tonight after going down 2-0 early on, but somehow the Spanish side fought back to draw the game.

After losing to FC Twente and drawing with Schalke they still have a chance of qualifying with this result and coach Juan Ramón López Muñiz praised his side after the game.

"We are feeling great," he told Eurosport after the match.

"It would be unjust not to value the work of the players, which was excellent, the playing of the ball, the professionalism and the winning spirit. We were losing 2-0 but the ones that were playing were us."

Certainly it was a remarkable come back from Racing after going behind so early and they could have even nicked it at the death with a late chance from a free-kick. Muñiz did acknowledge that his side could have won but also seemed more than content with the result they had.

"We must think about the great game we just played, the winning spirit that carried us when we were 2-0 down," he declared.

"We have made errors and that is costly against a team with the quality of PSG. They took advantage of them but we reacted, we worked to try and win the game.

"We have to try to extend our good run of form. We deserved the three points, in the last moment we had a chance to win it 2-3, but we have still left with a good result. Even when we were losing 2-0 I was satisfied because we were playing well."

The coach was, unsurprisingly, in a very talkative mood after the match and he went on to say that he felt the second goal that PSG scored should not have counted.

"The player that scored the goal was offside," he mused.

"It is a matter of interpretation. I believe that he took advantage of the rules but the referee did not interpret it like that."


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