Luis Enrique: 'I thrive off adversity'

Barcelona manager Luis Enrique has said that he enjoys being up against adversity ahead of his side's clash with Deportivo La Coruna on Wednesday.

Barca have been beaten in all three of their league matches so far in April to lose their healthy lead at the top of La Liga, with one point now separating the top three.

Their sudden loss of form has also seen them crash out of the Champions League, but Enrique is confident that his side can turn things around.

"Maybe it's because I'm from Gijon but I get high on adversity. You might find that strange - some people enjoy winning more; I like these kind of challenges. They motivate me. You can't imagine how I feel going into tomorrow's game and how thrilled we will be if we break this run," he told reporters.

"If it doesn't work out then I will be the first to congratulate who wins the league. Of course [I believe Barcelona will retain La Liga]. If I had any doubt about that I wouldn't be sitting here. We're on a negative run in a sporting sense but I don't think we need to take things out of their context. We just need to focus on what we can control. There is not one solution, it is the sum of a number of different factors that have accumulated.

"Against Valencia it was quite unfair that we lost that game because we were clearly the superior side. We were playing all the football, creating all the chances but didn't manage to turn the result around. I have nothing to criticise my team for, I think they have been doing the right things. If there is a team capable of doing it and much more given what they have done, it is this Barca."

Barcelona go into Wednesday's match having lost three league games in a row for the first time since 2003.