Rafa Benitez: We Paid for Our Mistakes

Barcelona coach Luis Enrique savoured a “glorious” El Clasico victory as he c laimed his side’s performance in their 4-0 thrashing of Real Madrid at the Bernabeu would “go down in history”.

“Years ago, it was hard to come here and win but now any Barcelona fan can come with optimism to the Bernabeu”, Busquets told reporters. “It is a memorable game against the eternal rival”. Hopefully the run continues. “We were up against a very good side and we paid for our mistakes”.

Barca even had the luxury of leaving Lionel Messi on the bench, but the Argentine did make his return from a two-month injury layoff half an hour from time and played a part in Suarez’s second and Barca’s fourth goal. Please note that comments are automatically checked for inappropriate language and will be removed accordingly.

The match gave Barcelona a league-topping surge, bringing them up to 30 points with Real Madrid trailing six points behind.

With Saturday’s defeat, Real Madrid are now six points adrift of their bitter rivals Barcelona.

“We always said it would be a tough game, but we did a very thorough job from the first minute”. “Thinking about La Liga, there is still a long way to go and we need to do things as we were doing them when we were undefeated”. “It hurts us a lot, to lose like this against Barcelona”. “We didn’t expect to lose and play so badly”.

Roma is trying to advance to the round of 16 for the first time since the 2010-11 season, when it was eliminated by Shakhtar Donetsk.

But the centre-back insisted the players still believed in Rafael Benitez, who was managing in El Clasico for the first time.

“Madrid had a big chance early on in the second half”.

“It will be a different type of game on Tuesday and we are going to have to step up a level”.

Former Liverpool and Chelsea manager Rafa Benitez is already facing the axe at Real Madrid, according to Sky Sports expert Guillem Balague. “I worry about the team recovering emotionally for the next game”.