Jose Mourinho has accomplished it once more.
The Actual Madrid supervisor celebrated Kylian Mbappe’s late winner at Barcelona on Sunday with a trademark knee slide, as he maintained his midas contact over their bitter rivals.
Mourinho has grow to be simply the third Actual boss to go six El Clasicos in a row with out defeat – 13 years after he final led Los Blancos on this fixture.
4 wins and two attracts in his previous six matches answerable for Actual Madrid in opposition to Barcelona put him up there with Miguel Munoz (1962 to 1965) and Vicente del Bosque (2001 to 2003) as Actual managers who’ve gone six in a row with out defeat in opposition to the previous enemy.
It was additionally only a second victory in eight video games in opposition to Barcelona for Actual, with the return of Mourinho to the fixture haunting the reigning champions
And extra importantly for Mourinho, Mbappe’s double in Real’s 2-1 win ended Barcelona’s nine-game unbeaten home run with an important Clasico victory on the Camp Nou.
A Actual defeat would have allowed Barcelona to determine a commanding nine-point benefit however the outcome has reworked the highest of La Liga, bringing Mourinho’s aspect to inside three factors of their rivals.
“For my part, Actual Madrid don’t play to win on the Camp Nou, Actual Madrid play to win La Liga,” he mentioned.
“We might win with luck, however we received with calmness and with all benefit,” he mentioned. “It is a very sturdy group. Everybody works very onerous. Everybody was able to win.
“The credit score goes to the gamers. If you win, the credit score goes to the gamers. However whenever you lose, the blame falls on you. And that is why we see coaches being sacked from their positions each week.”
The Portuguese, who returned to Actual 13 years after his first stint in cost this summer time, has now received six and misplaced six El Clasicos.
He mentioned: “I’ve realized that I’ve a rare group, with the standard and mindset to play.
“In midfield, having a mixture of skills provides us extra than simply having two gamers with comparable traits. This mixture of skills provides us steadiness when defending and high quality after we go on the assault.
“We have overwhelmed a number of groups by 4 or extra objectives, however that is Barca, and the gamers placed on a fantastic efficiency. We have to proceed like this and do not go over the moon after this win.”
Barcelona boss Hansi Flick mentioned he did not need to give excuses for the defeat however admitted his group lacked recent legs after a demanding few weeks.
“We missed the freshness,” he mentioned. “It isn’t simple for our gamers. We’ve to recuperate properly, practice properly and now we have to reply from this defeat.
“In huge video games, small issues are necessary and so they determine the video games and as we speak, it wasn’t on our aspect.
“I can see that as we speak we weren’t recent and that is what now we have to alter.”
