MADRID, 10 One. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The FC Barcelona defender, Gerard Piqué, was “optimistic to be able to compete well” and win the Spanish Super Cup title because he sees the team “growing” and with the capacity to “do damage” in Wednesday’s semifinal against Real Madrid to which they will be measured in a different scenario from the Classic League, especially in the emotional.
“Historically, we have shown that we fight all titles the same and we are eager to lift the Cup. In the semifinals there is a strong course, a Classic and it will be complicated, obviously, but I think we come at a good time. We are growing and I am optimistic that I can compete well and reach the final, “Piqué admitted this Monday on the Movistar + program ‘Noticias Vamos’.
The Catalan knows that “in the situation” in which the team is currently “each victory and a title reinforces a lot and gives confidence, which is very important for the coming months and makes you grow as a team.” “We have started the year well and we face the Super Cup with enthusiasm and desire to win it, we have been able to win it for a few years and it is a competition that historically has been good for us,” he stressed.
Anyway, do not forget that now with the new format it is “more complicated” because it gives “options to everyone” as it is a neutral match and field. “Everyone is equal to much and more in current football. Those who are here are because they have won the League or the Cup or have been runners-up, they are all teams of a high level and it will be two games of hard work and even that are normally at 50 -50 “, warned the blaugrana.
About Real Madrid, Piqué said that “it maintains the base that has given them many successes in the past.” “In the middle are Casemiro, Kroos and Modric who know each other very well and who have given a very high performance these years, and at the top are Benzema and Vinicius, who are at a superlative level of goals and play,” he commented.
“Back it retreats well and is a team that feels comfortable without the ball, and that bases everything on the transitions of Vinicius or that those in the middle associate to find Benzema and that the play is generated,” he added of the Madrid team .
And Barça and Real Madrid already know each other “very well”. “It is a team that has a high level, but we can hurt it. In the Camp Nou Classic it was unfair that they took the three points because of what the two teams did. If we put the clear we had of Dest we would have put ourselves by ahead and the game would have changed, and in the only one they had they got ahead. Also, emotionally we are not like we are now, we were more ‘touched’. The scenario has changed and we hope to take advantage of it, “he said.