Mirotic: "This Clásico can give us a lot of confidence"

MADRID, 1 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Barça power forward Nikola Mirotic referred to the "importance" of this Monday's Endesa League Clásico as the first game of 2023 since "it can give a lot of confidence", a clash against Real Madrid at the WiZink Center always "A lot of tension".

"It is always difficult and with a lot of tension. A good way to start the year, with such a difficult game, so complicated and so important for the League," he said this Sunday in statements to the club's media, prior to the La Liga clash. day 14 of the League.

El Clásico will be the first game of the year for a Barça team that closed 2022 with an extra-time victory over Red Star, thanks to the fact that Mirotic himself forced extra time with an impossible triple. "We will try to play our best game, we know we have to play well there. We come from a very important victory in Belgrade and we hope it helps us to have confidence," he said.

"As soon as I threw it, I told myself I was going in. You always have to have a bit of luck. It's still a great victory and a great game in Belgrade, with the atmosphere. There's not much time to think about it, you have to focus on the calendar complicated we have. We are up to the moment," he added.

Mirotic, who is picking up pace after his first month of competition after his late entry into the rotation due to the Achilles tendon injury that he carried over from last year, explained the difficulty of that calendar and the keys to the Clásico.

"We have had very little preparation time. There are no excuses, we know what we have to do. We have to defend, be very solid, close the rebound and try to be ourselves in attack. This game is important, it can give a lot of confidence to one or the other team and start off on the right foot this year 2023", he concluded.