FC Barcelona president Joan Laporta believes after the 3-3 draw against Real Madrid on Saturday evening that FC Barcelona has excellent chances to win the Spanish Championship for the third consecutive time.


Here are his post match comments:

Barça are strong candidates wo win the league after the adverse circumstances of the game and the fight back that we have seen. For us, it is very important to maintain the distance that is between ourselves and the team that are behind is and this spurs us on to keep adding points to our tally.

I want to congratulate the players because when drawing a game when you have played for a long time with a man less is good and we also had a chance to win in the final minutes. The team gave a very good account of themselves and the points are still being added. We kept going and could have taken all three points. We have to praise their effort.

The first half was a little strange. I think that we played better football than them. The game as going in our favour. In the second half we knew we would suffer and Madrid have been able to look more comfortable until that stroke of genius from Messi has come right near the end.

Víctor Valdés has demonstrated his quality and proved that we have a great goalkeeper here.