Los Blancos Pressure at Performance

Often happened ; (Zizou) points adrift if you do not see something to change, you make that decision  must keep going, whatever happens. We have prepared well this week, but I have to do my analysis of both with players and with own work.

Sergio Ramos ;"“We’ll try to avoid this happening again because one more slip-up will end our title hopes,” he said after the game.

“While no team are mathematically champions yet, we’ll keep fighting.

“[La Liga and the Champions League] are competitions which require a lot of stability and balance.

“The League is more complicated, but we’ll keep fighting for it.

“I’ve been here for many years and experienced better and worse situations.

“There have been times we’ve been ahead and lost the League and vice versa.

“In football anything can happen, so we must have hope. We can’t drop points if we aspire [for the title]."

Toni Kroos is a special player. He's one of the 5 best midfielders in the world. However everytime I see him play in Germany I can't help to think why we play him so far back. Real Madrid is in a dire situation, they have forwards that don't defend.

"It is obviously going to be difficult because we have dropped two points, but we won't give up," Zidane told a press conference.

"There are 39 points still to play for. You may think the league is over, but the players and myself don't believe that. There are plenty of points up for grabs and the others can lose too.

"I am not thinking of the others, though, but about continuing to work towards our objectives no matter what happens."

Zidane refuted suggestions Madrid under-performed at La Rosaleda, pointing out his side spurned chances to increase their lead.

"I don't think we didn't play well. We have problems with second balls, but we could have killed the game before," Zidane added. "In the end, we could even have lost, so maybe we have even won a point."

We had the game under control but we've made a few mistakes. We have to look at what we did wrong so we don't make the same mistakes". 

Difficult game

“We have drawn. We wanted to win so it tastes like a defeat, but we're going to fight on. Games away from home are always difficult because the opposition always raise their game against Real Madrid. We are now going to look towards the next game, which will also be difficult". 

Navas: “We're not thinking about giving up”

“We wanted to win and we had the mentality of playing a good game. We fought hard, but they played well and were able to pull level. We have gone out and looked to attack and win the game but we switched off a bit in defence and lost our markers. These things happen, it's football, you have to pick yourself up".

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