The Barca locker room could burst into flames. After the lost quarter-final return, in Montjuic, against PSG (1-4) Ilkay Gundogan let his frustration speak about his young central defender. “In these crucial moments, you have to be very sure when you intervene, to go and get the ball. I prefer to concede a goal or even allow a one against one than to play ten against eleven,” he declared in the mixed zone.
This Thursday afternoon, during an event organized in Barcelona, where Ronald Araujo was invited, the latter responded dryly to his midfielder: “I prefer to keep what I think to myself. I have codes and values that must be respected.” The Uruguayan defender also reacted to the referee’s decision. “We had it in our hands. Fault ? It’s 50-50. If the referee doesn’t signal it, nothing happens… And if he signals it, he obviously has to send me off,” he said.