Mourinho not thinking about El Clasico as Madrid take things one game at a time

Jose Mourinho “won’t spend a minute” considering this weekend’s Clasico face-off with Barcelona up until Real Madrid have actually browsed their midweek Champions League task.

Madrid surged Sevilla 4-1 in LaLiga on Sunday, with Kylian Mbappe assisting himself to a brace and being signed up with on the scoresheet by Arda Guler and Yan Diomande.

Los Blancos are now 6 points behind league leaders Barca, who they will deal with at Camp Nou on Sunday.

In his very first stint with Madrid in between 2010 and 2013, Mourinho won 5 of the 17 matches he supervised versus Barca (D6 L6), with 3 of those triumphes being available in 9 away video games (D3 L3).

With a Champions League clash with RB Leipzig to come on Wednesday, Mourinho is not looking too far ahead.

“There is the Champions League to play first, and that’s the only game we are thinking about. I won’t spend even a minute thinking about our opponent for next Sunday until Wednesday at 11pm,” he stated when inquired about El Clasico.

“There’s no chance to measure which 11 gamers should have to play one of the most. Lots of people are worthy of to play, and today some began, and others didn’t leave the bench at all.

“For example, the player who scored the winning goal against Roma  didn’t even play. We had more possession, more control of the game, created a lot, and got the ball to our wide players a lot. It was a very good game.”

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After Madrid’s 4-1 win, Sevilla manager Luis Garcia raged that Guler was not dispatched for an evident elbow on Peque Fernandez, however Mourinho was bemused by that response.

“I don’t comment on that. No one has managed to show me what they say happened. I haven’t seen a single image,” he stated.

“I’ve asked my experts and the television individuals for images, and I have not had the ability to see any picture of the important things they are speaking about that upset Luis.

“If one day something happens that I believe benefited us, I’ll have no problem coming out and saying it, but I think the opposite is more likely to happen because it’s the natural trend of things.”

Asked if he had any quick issue about Guler getting suspended for the Barcelona video game, which Vinicius Junior is currently prohibited for, Mourinho repeated:”I have not believed for a minute about El Clasico, just about winning this video game.

“For a coach who loses by 4 objectives and is offered the chance to address 4 or 5 concerns about that … it’s great since it enables him to discuss other things.

“When the situation happened, I looked at the tablet and I didn’t see anything. Have any of you seen it? That’s why I don’t understand the obsession with so many questions about this story.”