Mikel Arteta
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But I think there is a lot, a lot, a lot in our plate to look at ourselves.
There are still so many games to play.
There are Champions League games in between and a lot of things can happen.
But definitely nine points gap by the way that Barcelona is playing at the moment.
By the moment that Real Madrid is going through at this stage, I think that it's enough to say that Barcelona is almost touching that trophy of La Liga.
I'm not going to go to the amount of points that they need to get or the amount of games that Real Madrid needs to win, but definitely just for the way, the momentum that both of the teams are going through at this stage.
Show me that Barcelona, even though that they don't go through in the Champions League or whatever happened in the next couple of weeks, they look strong, they look solid, they have that idea.
And they can be exposed at some times, but definitely the amount of high power that they got up front, the amount of creativity, the amount of players in the middle of the park who can provide good football shows that this Barcelona is stronger at the moment.
And with that, Gabi will be enough to get the trophy.
I mean, I think that the team is going to be very clear.
It's not going to change much from what we saw in the first game against Barcelona.
You could see today by the picks Simeone did against Sevilla, leaving most of the 11 starters on the bench waiting and rested.
I think he used in the second half a few minutes on Lokman and no much more.
I have been resting, not even warm up.
I saw Antoine Griezmann, Julian on the bench waiting to the end of the game.
So I think the Simeone's got very clear that he's going to stick with the same team, try to put exactly the same game with waves of pressure on Barcelona, playing at home sometimes with the crowd, you know, that you tend to show your presence, to try to dominate that sometimes.
But definitely knowing that you cannot give much space to this Barcelona today.