Lucho: Beating Athletic in the cup won't be so easy
Luis Enrique does not think beating Athletic Club on Wednesday in the Copa del Rey in Bilbao will be as easy as Barcelona's 6-0 win over the Basques at Camp Nou on Sunday night.
“It will be a different competition and will not have anything to do with what we saw here,” he said.
“They will try and make home advantage count, but we will go out to win the game, without thinking about the second leg.
“I never had an easy game at San Mames and if they made things hard for us tonight with 10 men, imagine what it’ll be like with 11.”
Lucho also thought his team did well, reacting to Athletic being reduced to 10 men so early the right way.
He said: “The incidents changed the game completely and the tactical plans we had went out the window. It was a comfortable game for us but we still needed to work hard and stay in our positions.
"It was much easier for us obviously but we still had to do our job, we were only 2-0 up at half-time. We had to finish them off after the break and we did that.”
Of the red card, for goalkeeper Gorka Iraizoz for taking out Luis Suarez, conceding a penaly in the process, he added: "It’s an excessive punishment but those are the rules and the referees have to work within them. If the rule were to change, all coaches would be delighted."
