El Clasico defeat shatters Real Madrid Coach, Benitez

This game was a pure demonstration from Barcelona, which only needed 11 minutes to open the mark by Suarez.

Saturday’s outing at the Santiago Bernabeu was the first El Clasico outing for Benitez, but the Spaniard failed the test woefully.

“We were effective both in attack and in defence”, he added.

Barcelona was dominant on Saturday and the win could put some pressure on Real Madrid heading into the next stretch of the season.

Benitez had lost just once in his first 15 games in charge of Real Madrid before last night’s defeat against.

He also explained the decision to leave Lionel Messi on the bench, with the Argentine introduced as a 57th minute substitute for his first appearance since September 26.

“We were superior, but that is to our credit, not their discredit”. We paid for our mistakes and it was increasingly hard.

“There is still a long way to go and it is in no way decisive, but we go away from here very, very happy”.

Ronaldinho was given a similar reception in a La Liga game at Real’s giant arena on November 19, 2005, when the Brazilian forward netted two superb goals in Barca’s 3-0 success and the home fans stood to applaud.

He said: “It’s painful for us to lose, and to lose the way we did”.

“Losing like this and against a rival like Barcelona hurts us a lot. He has to recover his muscle tone and his form, but you have to play to recover that”. “We have to get ourselves out of this situation”. We managed to that on a few occasions but not on others, and were made to pay for that.

“Obviously we are standing firmly by the manager”, Ramos said. Our plan was to keep possession.

“I did not see it like that”, he said.

“They scored against us very early on and on top of that we weren’t able to convert our chances into goals”. He replaced Ivan Rakitic in the second half.

“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.

Speaking at his post-game news conference, a crestfallen Blancos coach admitted he deserved a share of the blame for what had happened, while saying they must quickly turn the page and move on.