Ramos scores last gasp equaliser against Barcelona

Meanwhile Villarreal’s poor run of form continued as a tiresome 0-0 draw away to Leganes prevented them from closing the gap on the top three and Fran Escriba’s men have won just one of their last five league games. We have a six-point lead, but it does not change anything.

“In my opinion, the performance of the team was higher than that of the rival, but we have to improve, it is clear”. “We had the match under control”, he said after the match.

“We played a good match and we achieved a very important point, we believed until the end”, Zidane said about El Clásico.

It was Luis Suarez who opened the scoring after he got on the end of Neymar’s free kick 8 minutes into the second half.

They reckoned without Ramos, and his Phoenix-from-the-flames habit.

Neymar sliced open the Real defence but put too much power into his shot while substitute Iniesta shot into the side netting after magnificent play from the Brazilian.

He is also a phenomenal target man at set pieces, with a gift for the telling punchline. “We need to improve, especially at home”.

Barcelona enjoyed the majority of possession, but with captain Andres Iniesta left on the bench on his return from a two-month injury layoff, lacked the creativity to break down Madrid before the break. We believed until the end.

For Barcelona, the draw felt like a defeat.

“We feel like we’ve had a jug of cold water thrown over us”. It’s a point, we keep picking them up, and in the first half we had chances to hurt them. In seven home league matches this season, it won only three times and endured an embarrassing 2-1 loss to promoted Alaves in the third round.

With Barcelona seconds from a hard-fought Clasico win he rose to head in a Luka Modric free-kick on 90 minutes, earning Madrid a crucial point at Camp Nou.

One piece of positive news for Barcelona was the return of captain Andres Iniesta from injury, as the Spanish worldwide put on a virtuoso display as a second-half substitute.

His sentiments were shared by goalscorer Suarez, who told beIN Sports: “We worked hard, had chances but, if you don’t take them, then that sort of thing can happen”.

“In a game of this magnitude, it is hard to control every aspect, but one of Madrid’s main traits is their ability to draw games in the dying minutes”.