The mistakes in Saturday's game were the main subject in Busquets’ press conference at the Joan Gamper training ground. "As it happened, last year we also began with problems, losing to Hercules, but it’s no good worrying about it. We have to take note of it, correct the mistakes, and think, from today, about the Champions League, and Milan".

FIFA dates

Sergio feels that the international call-ups may be a possible reason for the situation they found themselves in, in Anoeta:. "It’s always tricky. You come back from another setting, another team, and different teammates. It’s not easy to get back to what we do well, but we can’t let it happen again."

He continued: "At half we didn’t think at all that the game was won, and it turned out like that…… it’s a fact that, away from home, winning is always tough, and will get increasingly tougher. We haven’t had chance to talk about what happened yesterday, but we will. We can’t do that until after the Champions League match on Tuesday".

Reaction against Milan

According to Busquets, team morale "is not the best today, but we’ll react, and we’ll do that soon, and very well. Milan is another game, another competition, and we’ll go for everything". With regard to Tuesday's game, Sergio said, "With the help and support of our fans we’ll make it a great night in the Champions”.

On Barça’s next opponent, Sergio made reference to the "great players in the Italian team, especially up front. Ibrahimovic, Pato, Robinho, and Cassano are very dangerous and we’ll have to keep an eye on them”. And he ended with the warning: "We also have to watch closely the rest of the team. They are the Champions of the Italian league, and we mustn’t forget that".