Hansi Flick’s Barca have won back-to-back La Liga titles and lead the top flight, in which they are unbeaten, while Mourinho arrived this summer after Madrid went two seasons without a major trophy. The panorama has changed slightly after Barca suffered their first defeat of the season against Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday, while Madrid have won their last four matches. Madrid are third in La Liga, trailing Barca by six points before Sunday’s meeting at Camp Nou.
Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho said it was unfair to compare his side to Spanish champions Barcelona ahead of Sunday’s La Liga Clasico.
Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho said it was unfair to compare his side to Spanish champions Barcelona ahead of Sunday’s La Liga Clasico.
“We’ve been working for three months. Out of that, you can take pre-season when the players were arriving back from the World Cup, and the recent international break. We’ve been together for a month-and-a-half, two months… “This is the start of a project. We’re in an initial phase where the coach is learning, analysing, and bit by bit defining paths. The players are learning about the coach. Comparing a team in this state to more established sides, I think, is unfair.
Because of the Paris game, or Madrid’s 4-1 win against RB Leipzig, they will change their way of thinking, “I don’t think that just.
“I think the people who thought a week ago Barca would thrash us will keep thinking the same thing,” Mourinho told reporters on Saturday. Mourinho said form did not matter when it comes to the Clasico. “We’ve been in a good dynamic, winning games, playing well and scoring goals, but in the Clasico it doesn’t matter what you did before, it has no influence,” said Mourinho.
