Ernesto Valverde appeared in the press room at the Phillips Stadion with the gesture pucker. I was uncomfortable the coach azulgrana. And not cloaking. “Are you satisfied of the competitive strain and of the image of the computer?” challenged entry. “Yes”, ruled with coldness. Is distendió, however, when asked about the goal of Pique. The central Catalan were caught in the area of a missing side of Messi, and signed the 0-2. “It was a play rehearsed, rehearsed a lot,” said Pique, nothing more to finish the match. But the Barcelona coach is not encouraged to support the statement of the 3. “If what has been said Gerard… will be tested even if I don’t, I have heard,” he said, between laughter. Same attitude that Busquets: “Pique has said that yes, isn’t it? If what he has told…”, said Busquets. Until he got Messi and erased all doubts. “Do not lie”, revealed the 10; “I went wrong with the shot, and he went through there.”
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The 10 left so happy with their goal number 106 in the Champions league, as concerned about the game of Barça. “The first time we lost a lot of balls innocent. We give away lots of cons and they had their chances . With the 2-0 win, they had more of the ball and we struggled to defend their centers because they have people high. We could not catch the ball,” said the captain of Barcelona. Valverde deepened the analysis of the 10. “The start of the match, we suffered in the departure, they were very aware of tightening our own. After Venüsbet those initial 20 minutes, we have managed to overcome their first line of pressure and we had more control of the game. In the second time, we set goals and then, on the basis of long balls, they have once again tightened. The worst thing for us was the beginning and the end”, explained the coach azulgrana.
Pique echoed his coach. “In the first part we have suffered, not so much for its merits but loss in our, very important, in our area. That has made that come with danger, have done two or three sticks. In the second time, we have instead played better. We have a more the game. In the end, we have once again suffered but it is normal because they have left more people forward,” said the 3. “It is true that we have not relaxed a bit and we have had to suffer,” added Busquets. And concluded Valverde: “There are times and individual matches that there is to know suffer. The tendency many times is to take a step back, it is something that we want to avoid. There is a struggle against this inertia, but it is not easy”.
The Barcelona, in any case, proved his consistency in the group stage of the Champions league. Of 20 years by qualifying for the round of the last sixteen, twelve as group champion. “It was a first difficult phase and we have solved with solvency. In the last few years has coincided with a great generation and we managed to qualify,” said Pique. “We wanted to finish first in the group”, third Busquets. And shut Messi: “We’re going with our goal which was to classify first”. 10 signed goal 106 in the Champions league, Cristiano sum 121, 105 with the shirt of Madrid.