Jordi Alba: "When you can’t play there is nothing else but to compete"

“Sometimes when you can’t play anymore, as it was, with suffocating pressure at height and it’s hard for us to play the ball, when it gets complicated, there’s no other option but to compete, and that’s what the coach told us. He told us, and we have become more aggressive and more competitive. ” In this way, Jordi Alba recognized after the victory against Real Sociedad that Barça could not show their game but featured the character of the team to lead the game and add three points. “A victory for the heart, for the team and it is very important to get to the top of the standings”, he stated. sunrisewho also taught the difficulty of winning “on a very complex field and against an opponent who is very good at playing ball”.

Trying to make a more global analysis, now there are no options to win the League title beyond math, Jordi Alba regret “a lot of points lost at the start of the season, which cost us a lot” but want to appreciate “the work of koeman and the advent of Xaviwhich allowed the team to thrive, also did things wrong, and changed the face of the team. ”To finish, he chose to continue competing the same way and now we need to get second place to land in the Super Cup and improve the sensations and make them good ”.

Aubameyang: “We had an attitude and it was very important”

The scorer of the match, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, acknowledged that Thursday’s victory over Anoeta was “very hard fought” and stressed the importance of winning “after two screwed up and complicated games”. The Gabonese appreciates the character and desire shown by the team: “I think it’s a matter of attitude and we have it”. Regarding his goal, which puts him as Barça’s top scorer of the season with 11 goals, similar to Memphis, he was “very happy and proud” and recalled “I worked hard to be fit and happy”.