He Real Madrid He didn’t even have two days to prepare the Classic of the Endesa League against the Barça and Sergio Llullwho completed 1,200 games with the white shirt last Friday, explained it bluntly at a press conference, after breaking the historic winning streak at the Movistar Arena.
“It hasn’t been 48 hours to prepare for the game because we played on Friday at nine and today we played in the morning, it doesn’t even take 48 hours,” Llull was honest. “I don’t know if it seems normal to the person who makes the calendar, it doesn’t seem that way to me.“he added.
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Llull He did not use the calendar as an excuse for the defeat against Barçabut he did insist on the need to talk about an increasingly intense season: “Neither for one team nor for another, because they also played on Friday. It is not an excuse for this defeat, but it is a call to common sense when making the calendar for everyone.
“We lacked intensity”
The Spaniard finished the game with 9 points and a rating of 15, being the player with the best plus/minus for Real Madrid (+10). “It’s not even 48 hours and we are playing a Classic“, he said after the game.
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About the match, Llull He stated that it was “a very close Classic in which second chances have killed us.” The Spaniard congratulated Barça for the victory. “We have conceded too many points. Congratulations to Barcelona because they deserved it. When you play in a Clásico it has to be noticed, we knew it from the beginning and even more so when you play at home. We have lacked intensity and character, we have only gotten it at times“, concluded in a mixed zone.
