A 1-0 defeat to Getafe saw Barcelona slip six points behind Real, and Guardiola showed a humility alien to his rival Jose Mourinho when he said: “Real Madrid are six points clear because up to now they have been better than us.
“We know that Real Madrid are very strong and we know we’ll have to lift our game or we won’t get there.
“We will try to raise our level because our current one is not good enough to be top of the league.
“We’ll try and if we don’t succeed we will congratulate our opponent for having been superior.”
