FC Barcelona – Real Madrid: Catalonia in ecstasy after the great victory

A great game. This is how to sum up this last Clasico between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid, at Camp Nou. At the end of the suspense, the Catalans snatched the victory, “ecstatic” titled Mundo Deportivo, the Catalan daily. Thanks to a goal, in the last minutes, from Franck Kessié (2-1), which “offers Barça a goal in stoppage time and more than a victory for the Championship”specified the other Catalan sports media, Sport. After the meeting, Xavi Hernandez expressed his state of mind.

“It’s an important, deserved victory, we dominated more than them and we created more clear chances. the team gave everything against a great team like Madrid. It’s a very important victory, which will give us a lot of confidence for the future. From my point of view, we had more control, but we didn’t minimize their inside passes which gave us a lot of problems. Overall, I think we were superior.”he first explained at the microphone of Movistar.

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Sergi Roberto hailed by Xavi Hernandez

Before returning to the performance of Sergi Roberto, elected man of the match by the editorial staff. “I had my doubts between him and Kessie, but in the end it worked out well because they both got the upper hand that night. Sergi understands positional play very well (…) We don’t feel like champions, but it’s a very important step for us. The script was perfect. We deserved it. Barca were superior and the players deserved it.he said on Barca TV.

“You can never say, there are a lot of matches left, you can never leave Madrid for dead, but twelve points is a complicated distance. This victory was very important and I am very happy with the goal and the victory. With Franck’s goal, we all went crazy.”, reacted the main interested party, Sergi Roberto. An observation shared by Sergio Busquets: “We had more chances than them, they were in front with luck. We then gave everything to come back and psychologically, the goal helped us.. Before going to Elche, after the international break, Barça is twelve points ahead of its eternal rival, twelve days from the end.