Xavi: 'Barcelona were far superior than Real Madrid'

Barcelona captain Xavi Hernandez says that his side were "far superior" to Real Madrid after their 3-1 El Clasico win.

By Jack Prescott, Rugby Editor | 11 December 2011

Barcelona captain Xavi has claimed that his side were "very superior" to Real Madrid after the Catalan club's 3-1 El Clasico win.

The Spain international scored Barca's second at the Santiago Bernabeu on Saturday night as they went top of the La Liga table.

"We were very superior to Real Madrid," he told La Sexta.

"We wanted to be brave here. We know that you cannot win otherwise and the team played a great match in every department. We are far superior to Real Madrid.

"I am very happy about everything, for the victory, and the most important thing is that collectively we played a great game and we were very superior."

The European champions will now take a break from league duties to participate in the FIFA World Club Championship in Japan.

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Premier League Table

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Real Madrid	33	26	6	1	71	22	49	84
2	Barcelona	33	22	7	4	68	39	29	73
3	Girona Girona	33	22	5	6	69	40	29	71
4	Atletico Madrid Atletico	33	20	4	9	62	39	23	64
5	Athletic Bilbao	33	16	10	7	53	33	20	58
6	Real Sociedad	33	13	12	8	46	35	11	51
7	Real Betis Betis	33	12	13	8	41	39	2	49
8	Valencia	33	13	8	12	37	38	-1	47
9	Villarreal	33	12	9	12	54	55	-1	45
10	Getafe	33	10	13	10	41	45	-4	43
11	Osasuna	33	11	6	16	37	49	-12	39
12	Sevilla	33	9	11	13	42	46	-4	38
13	Alaves Alaves	33	10	8	15	31	38	-7	38
14	Las Palmas Las Palmas	33	10	7	16	30	41	-11	37
15	Rayo Vallecano	33	7	13	13	27	42	-15	34
16	Mallorca	33	6	14	13	27	39	-12	32
17	Celta Vigo	33	7	10	16	37	50	-13	31
18	Cadiz Cadiz	33	4	14	15	23	46	-23	26
19	Granada	33	4	9	20	36	61	-25	21
R	Almeria	33	1	11	21	32	67	-35	14