Barça is going through a complicated period. Although very well placed to finish among the top eight in the Champions League, the Catalans find it more difficult to string together La Liga matches every weekend. Beaten by Real Sociedad, they then conceded a draw at the end of the match on the pitch of Celta Vigo (2-2). But Barcelona fans began to worry this Saturday after the defeat against Las Palmas at home, signing a third unsuccessful match in a row (1-2).
Barça admits a drop in pace…
First surprised by Sandro Ramirez, trained at La Masia, the Catalans thought they would come back thanks to a beautiful powerful strike from Raphina, but were then surprised by Fabio Silva, after a big individual error from Hector Fort. A hard blow for the Culés, since they are no longer guaranteed to remain at the top of the Championship in the event of success for Real Madrid, who have two matches in hand. After the match, Hansi Flick pointed out his team’s problems.
“We can play well and create chances. But when we don’t, that’s our problem. It was easy to create chances and score goals, but that is no longer the case today. We must change this. We need to defend better and of course if you don’t score a goal it becomes more difficult to keep clean sheets. But it’s not just about the defensive players, it’s about the whole team.”assured the Catalan coach.
…but also points to arbitration
What the afternoon’s scorer, Raphinha, confirmed: “I think we have lowered the level of what we do and that makes it harder for us during matches. We must try to improve. We do a lot of things wrong. I’m angry. We have the next game on Tuesday and we have to turn things around. I don’t care about my goal, I care about winning.”he added. But one action particularly frustrated Barça, when a penalty was not whistled against Pau Cubarsí, taken in the opposing area.
“It’s true that we had a spectacular start and that we had some bad matches, but it’s not a bad series (…) We have to correct things and move forward. We never stopped trusting. We’re going to go back to doing what we were doing. Pau’s game… I think it’s working on him. I don’t know the reasons why the penalty was not awarded.”assured Fermín López. On Tuesday, FC Barcelona will have to silence the critics by putting in a consistent match in Mallorca.
