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Valencia coach Baraja: Real Madrid will be motivated; we must honour Mestalla anniversary

Valencia coach Ruben Baraja expects to face a motivated Real Madrid today.

Real go into the game on the back of their Champions League semifinal thrashing at Manchester City.

Baraja said: "I am expecting a typical Real Madrid: A competitive team that, regardless of the fact that they didn't have a good game the other day in the Champions League, we know how good they are. Wherever they go, they play to win and I expect that tomorrow.

"I also hope that Valencia CF give a good showing, in the sense of working well in the game and looking for our chances to win. If we have a very complete game we can have those opportunities.

"It is a special day. For a stadium like ours to turn one hundred years old, and seeing all the generations that have passed through the ground... there will be families that have seen it all: Their parents, children, grandchildren, grandparents... it is exciting to be here at this moment in time and we would like to make the fans feel that they are the most important asset for the club. I hope that we do that with a victory.

"We aren't contemplating the situation of calculating the points we need to stay up. We are focused on our day-to-day work and today our focus on having prepared for the next game, which we are going to play against an excellent team. We have to concentrate on what is down to us, what we are capable of doing. If we do things right, we will have chances. We must have humility but at the same time be ambitious."

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