“What we have to do now is stay united”, he added.
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Barcelona on Saturday brightened their hopes of a sixth La Liga title after humiliating Real Madrid with a stunning 4-0 victory. “At half-time we talked about improving, and looking for a goal, all the team were raging to start and we began the second half well”.
Luis Enrique: “I see Messi in a good way”. We leave here with a very high morale.
“We were superior, but that is to our credit, not their discredit”.
“It’s a hard moment for us”, he said. It was a very complete performance, very important for us to win here. “It was a memorable game”. We wanted to push, attack, get the ball fast.
“When you lose to Barcelona, the fans feel hurt and they want an explanation”.
It’s still so, so early because we are only in November, and the league doesn’t end till May, but a gap of six points in November could prove to be pivotal when it is all said and done. If that had been a goal, we could have gotten into the game. “In this case the players have enough quality to do better”, he told AS. “There is a long way to go, we must get back to playing as well as we were when we were unbeaten”. We have made mistakes. Our plan was to keep possession.
Xavi – who departed for Al-Sadd in the close-season after 17 trophy-laden years with the Barca first team – was thrilled with the Spanish champions” display even if they fell short of the five-goal “manita’.
With two games remaining the Giallorossi are only second in Group E by a single point from Bayer Leverkusen, with BATE Borisov – Roma’s day-six opponents – another point back.
“Throughout the game we did what we had wanted to do, and it came out well”. That’s what we spoke about at half time.
In his 100th game in a Madrid shirt this was a glorious chance for Gareth Bale to dispel the mounting critics of his impotent displays in a Real shirt for the past 18 months.
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“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]”.
