Ronald Koeman, pissed off. Not furious in his speech but clear in the message addressed to his players, the Barcelona coach regretted the “lack of attitude, concentration and aggressiveness” shown in a game that, in the previous one, had warned transcendental. “We have taken a giant step backwards. You have to see it that way” he admitted, without dissimulation. A full-blown disaster.
“It is difficult to explain the goals we concede. You can speak of a lack of concentration, also aggressiveness when you don’t have the ball … But it is not easy to explain that second goal; I only see it as a terrible lack of concentration” Koeman summarized , before you admit that thinking about the title is nothing short of a pipe dream.
“LaLiga? It’s a giant step backwards. You have to see it like this after a match in which the result is so disappointing. You have to continue but a distance of 12 points against such a strong Atlético Madrid is a lot,” he said, repeating that ” if we don’t improve our attitude in away games, nothing more can be said. “
“We conceded goals that I do not remember having suffered in other teams that I have trained” fired the coach, stating that in attack “we created opportunities and we had them after 2-1 but their goalkeeper was phenomenal … What happens is that the rivals get ahead in too many games, we don’t find spaces and we fail behind, we don’t have the necessary aggressiveness, “he denounced.
“We lose and win the games all together. The coach always has importance in the final result” he cut when asked directly about the sole responsibility of the players, stating that the collapse “must be accepted and recognized.”
“We have too many ups and downs in the games. The entrance attitude is good, but in various moments of the game when you don’t have the ball, when you don’t come in strong, you leave spaces … We failed a lot and that is a bad attitude of the whole team” summarized.
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