Barcelona midfielder Andres Iniesta has challenged his
team-mates to take the game to Real Madrid in Sunday's much-anticipated clash.
The two biggest clubs in Spanish football go head-to-head
in Madrid with Barcelona looking for a Clasico win to keep their title push
alive.
The Catalan giants sit four points behind leaders Real in
La Liga and know defeat could spell the end of their title defence.
"We know that we are always required to bring our
very best football when we play at the Bernabeu," Iniesta told a news
conference on Thursday.
"But we have to be, more than ever, Barca.
"We just have to be brave, keep possession. If we
don't do that, we will have a bad time. It's a ground where the biggest demands
are made of players.
"We have to go out and play to win and be daring.
Things have normally worked out well when we have been daring."
At suggestions Barcelona fans would feel like underdogs
heading into the match, Iniesta said they had every right to be confident.
"I don't like to think that there are supporters of
our team that don't think we are able to win the league or win at the
Bernabeu," he added.
"This is a team that has won so many different
things. We have won the right to believe in ourselves.
"Yes, we have had bad games, but so have every team.
Generally year after year we have been winning with this team.
"Big demands have been made of this team and we have
responded and we have been winning well.
"If things don't go well it is normal that there
will be criticism, but to think that Madrid are just going to beat us easily, I
don't think anyone should think that.
"We are going there to play a good game."
Of Barcelona's title bid, Iniesta also said: "It's
not as if we are 20 points from the leaders. We still have a chance of catching
up. It's not that hard."
Culled from Soccerway
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