Barcelona’s Pep Guardiola: Real Madrid Do Not Have The Power To Decide Who Plays And Who Does Not

Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola is looking forward to their Champions League come crosswise with Real Madrid on Tuesday evening and considers that Uefa were right not to listen to complaints lodged in opposition to them.

Madrid reported Dani Alves, Sergio Busquets, Pedro, Jose Pinto, Seydou Keita and Victor Valdes for unfair behavior in their 2-0 defeat to Barca in the first-leg of their semi-final tie at the Santiago Bernabeu last week. The money club also unconfined video footage claiming that Busquets had fearful a racist slur toward full-back Marcelo.

“When you make these complaints, it’s because you deem them to be true,” Guardiola told reporters in the pre-match press symposium on Monday. “They may think we’re not fair and I think the contrary. I know my players much well all over again than their legal department. At this club we convey certain values to our people. The Madrid manager [Jose Mourinho] was here for four years and he recognize that.”