“They were always thinking about inferiority: they had ‘madriditis,’ they had ‘yes, but,’” Cruyff said. “We were always thinking we were the victims but in my way of thinking there was no victim. I said ‘let’s look at ourselves, let’s think about how we can be better. Let the rest do whatever they want- we know what we want.’”
“Cruyff was a sensational player,” Juan Manuel Asensi, who scored two of the goals, recollected. “He was also a winner. The change in mentality was brutal. Suddenly, from always losing we saw that we could win, it was as if we had been drowning and now we were pulled out of the water. We could swim.”