Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos believes that his team can catch Barcelona or at least make life difficult for their rivals in the title race.

A win over city rivals Atletico Madrid means that Los Balncos jumped to second spot in La Liga, within five points of league leaders Barca, who have a game in hand.

“We fulfilled our objective to recover our position in the table and reduce the distance to the leaders and now we will wait to see how they do,” he told BeIN Sports.

“It was very a complete performance from us and I think that the result is fair. I thought our performance was very intelligent and now the league is still to be fought for.

“There are many points up for grabs and any team can cause problems, as was seen in the first half of the season.

“We have hope and are going to fight for three competitions. The league motivates us and we want to continue fighting for it and make life difficult for Barcelona.”

The defender scored Madrid’s penalty on Saturday to make it 2-1 and admitted that he likes to take the responsibility of the spot kick.

“I am happy to assume that responsibility as it was important to score it,” Ramos added. “I hope there are many more and I can continue this run of scoring them.”