FC Barcelona is the only team with a one hundred per cent record in La Liga and Sergio Busquets said “we are the team to beat and it is normal that other teams want us to drop points”.
After two more wins for Spain in the World Cup qualifiers, Sergio Busquets has spoken about
Barça’s game on Saturday against Valencia. The Catalan said “it’s normal for
people to want the league to be evenly matched and for other teams to get into winning ways to make
the championship more competitive. Now we are the team to beat, because nobody has managed to beat
us until now”.
Villa doubts
There being doubts as to whether David Villa will be fit in time to play at
Mestalla, Sergio said “for us it’ll be better if he doesn’t play because
he’s a very dangerous striker. But it is also nice to go out and face full strength teams,
because that ,makes it all the more attractive”.
Valencia and Mestalla - dangerous
Sergio Busquets has already got experience of playing away to Valencia.
“Mestalla is a very difficult ground because the people get right on top of you and create a
lot of pressure. Last year we had to sweat to get a draw. Valencia have managed to keep hold of
some very strong attacking players like Pablo Hernández, Mata, Silva and Villa”.
Criticism for Messi?
The midfielder doesn’t understand why “the Argentinian people and press criticise
Messi, because he has always given everything for the national team. You just have to look at last
summer when he insisted on going to the Olympic games to play for his country. I’d like to
think this criticism has just been because of the negative vibes when Argentina were almost not
going to qualify for the World Cup”.
Photo: Miguel Ruiz (FCB)
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We’ll meet again!
Sergio Busquets is about to meet up again with three people he has spent the last week with:
Marchena, Silva and Mata. “When we came back after the two games, we joked about how it would
only be two day’s before, as they say, we’ll meet again” he said.