“It’s not easy to do this, it’s the fifth time in the history of the Club that the team has won its opening six Liga games. It’s possibly our best moment since we started, but perhaps we’ll have better moments this season”
"Team has a great opportunity. If we were told at the beginning of the Liga that we’d have a two-point advantage and we’d go up to a five-point advantage, we’d all sign on the dotted line.”
“We’re only playing a football match, nothing else, we’re going to have a 5-point or an 11-point lead. If politics are discussed, it’ll be done somewhere else. This is sport. In the Camp Nou, there are always Catalan flags and we’ve had a lot of mosaics. When we go to other stadiums there are other types of flags, and nothing happens.”
“Pique completed a training session after days of inactivity. We’ll see how he’s doing tomorrow, how he’s recovered.”
it all depends on his foot, nothing else. His desire to play is not in doubt, he’s dedicated as much time as possible and more to his recovery. He’s done everything to be fit.”
"Song is used to playing in the pivot role and at times he played as a center defender, he’s had to play [in that position] sooner than we had hoped. The injuries to our center defenders has forced him to take a crash course and play in this role sooner than we planned.”
“We have tried to play football in a very deliberate way these past five seasons. At the same time we’re seeing that our opponents are closing themselves off at the back, they don’t play toe to toe with us and that forces us to be nuanced and look for variables.”
"The more games you play, the more you know. We know what they’ll do, how they’ll approach the match and they know what we’re going to do. I don’t think there will be any surprises at this point.”
"They have a fantastic team that cost a lot more millions than Barça’s and it’s possible that they’ll win.”
El Clasico was remarkably civil considering the stakes and the backdrop. Even Mourinho and Tito were level headed in the post match conferences. The only real dissenter was Pepe, of course.
