"When I was at Valencia we were seven points behind Real Madrid at Christmas time and I said to some of my players at a hotel, 'Keep going because we will win the league. Afterwards they said to me that they were laughing at the time but we won the league and we were seven points ahead," said the Spaniard.
"Maybe it's not the case when you have two teams at the top of the table because you cannot change the things they are doing. The only thing you can do is keep winning, keep the team with the same mentality and keep the team playing as well as possible, scoring goals and keeping clean sheets and afterwards you will see. You cannot keep looking at the table every day.
"It's a long race. To be ahead or below for one week is not a big difference. The question is to see if we can keep the team winning and the performance is similar."