Exhausted, sweaty, still with the emotions to the surface, with the memory of that goal in extremis with that, at least, rescued a point in the Wanda, Sergio Busquets launched their impressions to the microphones of Movistar TV: “it Is difficult to play well, but the Athletic poses of the matches as well; it’s not fun, but it’s your idea and you have to respect it,” snapped, distressed still when you think how complicated it had been to create a game with such a defensive fabric. “The spaces are very few, and it is not that we do not want to, but if you wanted to filter a pass the more likely it is that you find a ball lost. And that was even worse”, would confess shortly after. “I always play football I have fun”, he answered him, Koke, as a champion of a style of play radically different from the one that defends the 5 of Barcelona, this Saturday, met 500 games with zamarra barça, a figure that is only surpassed Xavi (767), Iniesta (674), Messi (651, for now), Puyol (593), Migueli (549) and Víctor Valdés (535). “Not that we be well-tie, but it was very difficult,” he said.
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So what explained the technician of the club, Ernesto Valverde, who described the meeting as a regular, discontent as he marched with the result. “Despite the fact that we have had throughout the domain, in the end we had to go against the tide”, it summed up. “Our idea was to dominate the match and play near your area. But you must understand that they are an expert team in draw back and leave then to counter-attack taking advantage of the spaces. We have not had perhaps the attack that we like because they have done so well. Yes I expected us to play a little on the counter, but we had a lot of domain. They are a team that defends very together and there have been the difficulties of the game. There has been a time in which we were all Sahabet so close to the area opposite that we lacked a bit of spark,” he explained.
Valverde even granted that the last defeat, at home and against Betis (3-4), marked the attitude with which the team approached the match against Atletico. “We came from a match in which we had more chances and we got mentalizados for that that would not happen again”.
beyond the difficulties to build up play and impose their style, beyond confess that this time the statistics of possession had been barren, and the reactions after the game were focused on Dembélé. The French was, again, the saviour of the Club, decisive as it was in the final of the Super cup, also in Valladolid (spain), Anoeta or Vallecas. In addition to Wanda, and after days in which he publicly criticized, wayward, unpunctual and undisciplined, he drew from the club. “It is a great player who has many, many things, among them have goal and has shown in this year. Has appearances determinants in the game. In a team lack of everything. Specialists in open the game for the band, players play, players who have enthusiasm, others with restraint. Dembélé has things that are not: brash, shooting with both legs, one against one and personality. You have a great talent and we help you to take him out. We look forward to many more things from him because he has a great talent,” said Valverde, who noted that the number of minutes you have available now will depend on just “him and his long-term performance”.
“I Think no one in doubt of its quality”, terció Guillermo Amor, head of Institutional Relations of the club. “Sure you will be fine. Is a young player and in the last few days there has been a lot of comments on it; we have to help you and he has to leave to help to adapt to the philosophy of Barça”, added Busquets. “He is a player very quiet, what has happened has not created doubt neither he nor the bench, we were so happy for him,” shut Jordi Alba.