Gerard Pique and Barça lost at the Bernabeu to Real Madrid on March 1, 2020. - Andrea Comas / AP / SIPA

If there is one thing that we cannot fault Gerard Pique for, it is to lack panache. The defender of Barça can lose a Clasico, but he never does it by leaving with his head down, without having dropped a little scud to the representatives of the capital. Sunday evening, after the defeat of Barça at Santiago-Bernabeu (2-0), the Catalan estimated that he had had in front of him during the first 45 minutes "one of the worst Real at Bernabeu" he has been given to see in his career. Just that.

"We are disgusted, we really thought we could bring back a good result because they diffused bad feelings, estimated Pique in As . Real Madrid in the first period is one of the worst I have encountered at the Bernabeu. But we have lost control. And the Madrilenians scored twice in the last 20 minutes, by Vinicius then Mariano. A victory that allows him to regain the lead in the championship. A beautiful gift for the 500th of Karim Benzema.

💫👏🇫🇷 ¡@Benzema alcanza la cifra de 5⃣0⃣0⃣ partidos con la camiseta del @realmadrid! #RealFootball | #HalaMadrid pic.twitter.com/XkoX96HDwS

- Real Madrid CF⚽ (@realmadrid) March 1, 2020

Pique's speech is not totally false on the merits, but there were surely other ways of saying it. And anyway, the loser is always wrong. This only reinforces, in the end, the feeling that Barça is also tough this season, and the arrival of Setien has not changed anything. “We have our problems too, agreed the defender then. We are not very good. "

Zidane: "We recover first place but above all we change dynamics"

We confirm. With a stereotypical and essentially axial game, the Catalans were never able to put Messi and Griezmann in good conditions. "We made mistakes, their pressure intensified a lot, we failed to move forward and we suffered. The truth is that we lost a lot of confidence with the ball, we went into a phase of nervousness, and it gave this result ", debriefed coach Quique Setien.

For its part, Real is much better, of course. "We recover first place but above all we change dynamics," breathed Zinedine Zidane. I'm happy, but not only that I won, but I'm happy because we did the job. I said it was going to be an opportunity to raise the bar, and on arrival we did what we promised. "With a small point difference 12 days from the end, this Liga promises in any case a great battle to the end.

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