The midfielder told El Mundo Deportivo: "The captain is right, in everything he said. We must enter the field more motivated, with much more aggression, knowing that being able to play nice football is not enough.

"Although we know how to play football very well and can create spectacular plays, as much as a team as individually, that no longer is enough.

"Away from home, with the opposition pressing, biting from the first second, on top of each one of us, we need something more, we need to be just as aggressive and to play as motivated as they are, although our football is different... "

Messi was hooked by coach Frank Rijkaard in the second-half on Sunday and admitted: "I don't like to be substituted, I've already said this before. I know that when I'm taken off, it's because Rijkaard believes the player coming on can do a better job than me."