Barcelona star, Gerard Pique has admitted that Barcelona is currently inferior to Real Madrid. Pique made the statement after Los Blancos walloped them 2-0 yesterday in the second leg of the Spanish Super Cup, bringing the aggregate to 5-1. According to Sky Sports "first-half goals from Marco Asensio and Karim Benzema, coupled with Sunday's 3-1 victory at Camp Nou, saw Madrid canter to a 5-1 aggregate win, securing the club's seventh trophy since Zidane took charge."
Pique who was substituted after sustaining an injury was quoted as saying "In the nine years I've been [at Barca], it's the first time I feel inferior to Madrid. We're not having our best time as a team or a club. We should all be as close to each other as possible and move forward."
"We must live with this defeat and accept that Madrid are better than us [at the moment], but the season's very long and there's room for improvement" he added.
Meanwhile, Barcelona Manager Ernest Valverde has admitted that the exit of Neymar was still affecting the team but assured that the club will recover from the shock.
"In three days you can run into trouble. There were things that happened in preseason that affected the balance within the team, things which we must correct, or work on to find another balance. There is nothing else to do than recover our spirits now and look forward. What we need to do is win. Everything changes with a victory."
