One name stood out above the rest after Barça's victory. Once again, Nikola Mirotic shone with his own light on the track and in the stands, chanted like few have seen at the Palau. “I have not experienced anything like it in my career. With this love and this support, I cannot fail these fans, I want to win the League for them, ”he said on television, an interview interrupted by the impressive shouts from the Palau.
Already in the locker room, before a cloud of microphones, the Montenegrin addressed his goodbye to the club. "I did not want to leave Barça, I have felt more love than ever. From what I know there is no option to continue," he stated.
“Winning a game of this intensity is an incredible feeling”, added a satisfied Sarunas Jasikevicius, already in the press room. "Things have become difficult and we have known how to move forward with character and sacrifice," he added.
"I've been at this club for a long time, as a player and as a coach, and I've never seen a similar environment," the Lithuanian described after a night of infernal noise in the ancient Palau.
The other side of the coin was Real Madrid, who missed out on winning at the end. “If we had won by doing exactly the same thing that we did, the victory would also have been fair, as has been the case for Barça. The game has been very competitive ”, admitted Chus Mateo.
Now, Barça and Madrid have 48 hours to recover. Tomorrow, at 9:00 p.m., the WiZink will host the third duel. “We have to calm down and recover physically and, above all, mentally. It's very hard to play these games so closely”, concluded Jasikevicius.
