The 13th, won at this stadium: “It is special to return to a field where you have conquered something so beautiful. I have wonderful memories, I have also played with the National Team and it is special. Hopefully it will motivate us to win the game.”
If the rivals go for Hazard: “It is clear that for us he is a very important player, his plays are at maximum power, maximum level. The rivals suffer a lot with him. He is not having luck with these injuries. Hopefully he will recover. as soon as possible because we need him one hundred percent. “
If Ramos comes out as a starter: “I've always felt very important in this squad. I don't play every game like Sergio anyway, but with all the coaches, now also with Zidane, I've considered myself very important. Now I'm playing in my position due to the loss of Sergio and I think that there I can help the team more. As a teammate, and especially as a friend and a Madrid player, I hope he will renew because he is a very important piece. I don't know what will happen, I am prepared for what comes and I will fight for my position. “
A Madrid of ups and downs: “What we are looking for is to have regularity, to face the matches a little more at ease. Against Inter we gave a very good version, dominating almost the entire match, and against Alavés, without being one of the worst matches you go losing and with actions that did not suit us. We have a great squad to keep us up there, which is what we all want. “
The explanation from the dressing room: “I don't think it's a lack of motivation because we all try to represent what this shield means, which is to go out and win every game. We are also people, with good and bad days. The rivals know us more and more. It is true that it is rare to play a game like Milan and then like Alavés. What we are trying is to find a regularity so that it gives us more confidence and that there are not those ups and downs. “
Defensive collapse: “We don't want that data, logically. We try, first, to be good defensively, which is how games are won. Rivals study us more and more. Before we are players, we are people, we try to do things the best we can. This is not the way to win titles, but we are doing everything possible. “
Study of the rivals: “We have been with this coach for a long time and I think that all the things we have done are quite good. We have always studied the rivals, the coach has given us data. Now that the results are not given it seems that everything is bad, that we don't work hard enough, that we don't do things to reverse the situation. This team always shows its face. At the beginning of each season it is always said that we are not going to win much, but then we have won titles and we have done things that Nobody has done it. We have a lot of experience and quality, then it's football and it can go wrong or right. “
If I expected to play more these seasons: “No, I have always said it, since I was a child. If they had made me sign everything I have experienced and everything I have played with this shirt, I would have signed it. I dreamed of playing a game and I have more out of 200. That all the coaches have counted on me says a lot of good about me. Personally, I would have liked to play 50 games a year instead of 20 or 30, I will not deny it, but I am happy, I am where I want to be. Offers come every summer that offer me things that I can't quite get at Madrid, but I'm happy. Now I wouldn't trade for anyone. “
Lesson from the defeat against Shakhtar at the Di Stéfano: “We have to be much more vigilant defensively when we are attacking because we know that they are very dynamic, very fast and against them they do a lot of damage. We have to try to get ahead on the scoreboard and in attack, above all, be vigilant to avoid its cons.