Rijkaard is happy with last night's win over Shalke 04

FC Barcelona's coah Frank Rijkaard said that he is happy with the mentality that his players played the game against Shalke (Barca won 1-0). He stated that after the horrible loss against Real Betis last weekend Barca's players have learnt their lesson and are now playing with formidable matureness and mentality.Here are other comments from the Dutch coach:

about the hard work paying off...
Rijkaard wasn't willing to analyze last night's game deeply but he said it clear : "It is difficult to compare the game with Shalke with the one vs Betis , but it is a fact that our team worked hard and earned the victory.Obviously we had to suffer at the end of the game but that is due to the fact that Shalke is one really physical team and they worked hard to challenge the result."

"We started the game well and our positional play was very good and characterised our opening," Rijkaard continued. "We pressurised the opposition defence well too. Later in the game we became too direct at times and we took note of that."

about the scorer Bojan Krkic...
Barca's coach was short in his comment on Bojan's : "He does things that great players do".
Bojan Krkic scored the only goal of the game after 11 minutes and Rijkaard was impressed with the striker, who became the second youngest goalscorer in the competition and the first player born in the 1990's to score.

about the possibilities in the league...
In the end of the interview Rijkaard pointed out that Barça will not concentrate all their strenght in the Champions League: "We still have a chance in the league and we have to keep going in order to be there. What we want now is to win every that we play."