Cazorla Is Exceptional – Robert Moreno

Spain manager, Robert Moreno has praised Santi Cazorla after the experienced midfielder netted his first international goal in four years.

Santi worked his way back into the Spanish team after his terrible injury woes and netted in the 7-0 Euro 2020 qualifying victory vs Malta in Cadiz.

Speaking after the game, Robert said Cazorla is exceptional and his experience is highly needed in his team that is lacking it.

His words, “What Santi’s achieving, his form, after what he went through for nearly three years with his terrible injury problems, is exceptional,”

“Without guys like him and Raul and Sergio it’s hard to win tournament semi-finals and finals.

“The contribution of people like Santi, Sergio and Raul – the generation who have already won tournaments – is incalculable.

“They have such quality and it’s hard to win tournaments without their kind of experience. They’ve accumulated things that they not only contribute in performance but transmit to others.”

On his team, “The gap between ‘big’ international sides and so-called lesser nations is closing – it’s very equal now across the board,”

“We worked really hard on opening things up, on finishing, because we knew we wouldn’t have it easy. Playing well like this and scoring lots of goals is always very welcome.

“The easiest thing in the world would have been for my players to accept three or four-nil and drop their level. But we hit seven and could easily have scored 10 – that says very good things about their mentality.

“I note that the players are remembering what I told them the last time we were together and the time before that. We are apart for weeks or months but the momentum is growing so that they put into practice what I asked of them previously. That’s good.

“We think it’s pretty historic that both Pau [Torres] and Dani [Olmo] both came on and scored with their first touch. It’s been decades since two subs came on and scored on their debuts.”