Barcelona claimed the La Liga bragging rights in stunning fashion, sweeping aside Real Madrid 4-0 in the season’s first El Clasico.
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Suarez’s brace and goals from Neymar and Andres Iniesta downed Real 0-4, as Real’s home fans jeered and booed their own side on Saturday in a match billed as the world’s biggest game in club football.
The result has piled pressure on Madrid coach Rafael Benitez while Luis Enrique’s side sit four points clear at the top after 12 games of their title defence.
“We’ve made mistakes and against a team like Barca you pay for those dearly. Our lead is six points but it is not decisive, there’s a long way to go”.
“It has been an all round performance”.
“Real Madrid already have a new coach in Zidane, I believe it’s time to give him the opportunity, as Barca did with Pep Guardiola and Luis Henrique [sic]”.
Although Lionel Messi came off the bench in the second half, it was Suarez who scored again, lifting the ball over a stranded Keylor Navas.
“We must support Benitez”.
Goals from Imanol Agirretxe and Xabi Prieto earlier on Saturday gave Real Sociedad coach Eusebio Sacristan a winning start in a 2-0 success at home to stuttering Sevilla. We wanted to push, attack, get the ball fast. What we have to do now is bounce back as quickly as possible. We didn’t expect to lose and play so badly.
Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos congratulates Barcelona on their victory and says the team will turn their form around. We must all be responsible for it not going well, now look for unity in the group, to try and sort this in our next game. Madrid needed to win to pull even with its rival in points and return to the top of the standings on goal difference.
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Spanish paper Sport labelled Madrid’s “BBC trident” of Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo a “shipwreck”, and that the Bernebau crowd booing the Portuguese forward suggests that Ronaldo’s days at Real – along with Benitez, who was “humiliated in all senses” – are “numbered”.
