Thursday 23 April 2009

Pique: "It's wrong to say we're getting favours"

Barcelona player Gerard Piqué gave an interview to Catalan sports paper El Mundo Deportivo.





You've noticed that the team is afraid to lose?
No. During the first round, we had a lot of victories in a row and everyone was waiting for a game that we wouldn't win. We had a dip but since then we’ve returned to winning.

The 4-3 loss against Atlético Madrid was the turning point?
It was a very strange game that we lost but could have won. Since that day, we're saying to ourselves that this cannot happen again and we've picked up the winning streak.

What would it mean to you to win the Liga in the Bernabéu?
That would mean the league is ours, and it would have something extra. In theory it could happen but this doesn't depend only on us because Madrid has to drop points before that game.

You've dreamed about it?
No. I did dream about winning the league, but winning it there would be something special because it would be in the home of the eternal rival. Maybe we wouldn't be able to celebrate it that much on the pitch but a Liga is a Liga and you have to enjoy and celebrate it like never before.

You've already be counting to see when you could win the long-expected league title?
No, we're going from game to game, thinking about three points at a time and that's going extremely well. Madrid is having a very good series and that also means that you cannot really start counting when or where we could win the league. If they don't fail, we'll win it two matchdays before the end because we're six points ahead.

Is the issue of the referees bothering you after what happened in Getafe?
No, it's better not to comment on those issues. If I have to be honest, at the end of the league, when you count everything together, Barça and Madrid always benefit more than the rest of the teams. Sometimes one gets more, sometimes the other.

But doesn't the whole campaign by the Madrid media saying that Barcelona is helped by the referees anger you when you see what happened in Getafe?
Yes, it's true that it doesn't really make sense that we're the only ones who get help from the referees. I think they're also doing it to destabilize us and to take away some of the pressure because they have a lot, being close to winning no trophy. It's a logical and normal thing. It has always happened but we shouldn't listen to it.

But the campaign goes on and on.
One's already used to it for so many years... If you respond to it, you're creating a mess and I think that this is not what interests us if you see how well we're positioned in the three competitions. That could only distract us.

It shocks you that Madrid is complaining when historically they have been receiving so many benefits and certainly more than Barcelona?
We wouldn't be right to start complaining about this season but there has to be some balance and Madrid just cannot say that we're getting favours. It's totally wrong.


This was the second part of this interview. You'll be able to read the third and last part here in the coming days with Piqué among other things talking about his entertainment qualities and his musical taste.

Read the first part of this interview here:
Pique: "It's very important to celebrate a win"

4 comments:

SJP said...

well said pique, very professional, i on the other hand am not a professional so i can go at madrid, i cant believe they have the nerve to presume we get help from the refs, they obviously aren't watching our games, every time we win the league or the cup its extra special as we have not only beaten the other teams but the spanish FA and the refs as well, madrid should imagine how empty thier trophy cabinet would be if the refs were neutral.
anyway as pique says the players must be used to this and ignore it.

lawrenzo said...

PEP, YOU ARE MY MAN.
WELL SAID PIQUE, COULDN'T AGREE MORE TO THAT,I PERSONALLY BELIEVE THAT BARCA IS ONE OF THE TEAMS THAT PLAYS FAIR FOOTBALL SO PEOPLE ARE RELATIVELY JEALOUS.KUDOS TO THE GUYS FOR A GREAT GAME AGAINST A RESOLUTE SIDE LIKE SEVILLA ALTHOUGH I BELIEVE THE ENGLISH MEDIA AREN'T CONVINCED YET TILL THEY SEE A BGOOD THUMPING OF CHELSEA.I BELIEVE MADRID ARE BEGINNING TO GET SCARED DAY BY DAY OF A POSSIBLE HUMILIATION AT THE BENABEAU.ALL THE SAME WE NEED TO BE CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC AND AS INIESTA SAID "I FEEL SHIVERS DOWN MY SPINE WHEN I HEAR THE TREBLE"IT CAN BE ACHIEVED WITH OR WITHOUT THE SO CALLED TERM "MESSI DEPENDENCY"WHICH I HATE TO HEAR SO MUCH.I HEAR PEP IS SUSPENDED AND ROBBEN IS INJURED. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

ej said...

Robben will play against Barca 100%Sure believe me

its another dirty Madrid tric to make presure since he didnt play first game.

they want us to be happy for that and at the day of match we hear that he is playing then we will go in the game not focused !!!!


dirty dirty madridista i hate in my life the most : CR and madrid god please let them get together and let barca beat them badly !!!!

barc4life said...

yes for sure, Robben is playing for the barca match. It's all the dirty tactics of madrid.

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