On Wednesday afternoon, when FC Barcelona returned to work after a two-day break, there was a group talk led by Xavi Hernandez which reviewed last Saturday’s loss in the Classic. In it, the coach highlighted the good performance of the culé, with the dominance in the first hour of the game and the chances created, and the bad, the lack of control in the final phase and giving Madrid options to do. to score. The words of Ilkay Gundogan, upset because he did not detect in the locker room the anger that the fact of losing to Real Madrid (1-2) should cause. MD has already reported that this summit is less exceptional than it seems, because it is common after every game, once thoroughly checked by the technical staff.
Gundogan He asked for the opportunity to speak in the discussion and gave explanations to his colleagues. He told them that he wasn’t referring to anyone in particular and that he was just upset about losing. Then the group, together Xavi in the head, he made a self-criticism, analyzed some individual and collective mistakes and ended up conspiring everything to recover the best image on Saturday in Anoeta against Real Sociedad, a rival from the top of the classification. The coach reviewed the match in detail with his men and noted the team’s mistakes, especially in the definition in the first half of the match and that he did not know how to counter Madrid’s push in the last half hour. After the conversation, there was a feeling among those present that Barça had grown stronger.
On the other hand, those are not the words of Gundogan disturbed the group too much, everyone interpreted that they were due to the normal reaction of a born winner like the German, but the midfielder wanted to clarify them.
After the match against Madrid, the German international left a message critical of the way in which the group accepted the defeat, in his opinion in a less harsh way than he expected. “I want to be honest but without going overboard because I don’t want to make a mistake. I came from the locker room and people were obviously disappointed after a big, important game and unnecessary result. But I want to see more anger, more frustration. This is part of the problem. You have to express more emotions when you lose and when you know you can play better. We have to do better in some situations and we are not reacting. Then it moved to the field. You have to take a step forward in this aspect because otherwise Real Madrid and Girona will run away. I’m not here to make these types of games disappear or let these spaces open up. I also have a responsibility as a veteran player to not let these things happen to the team. “We have to take a while.” That is the tough and sincere self-criticism Gundogan on LaLiga’s microphones. As soon as we heard his presence on Wednesday, and the analysis of Xavi Due to his team’s successes and mistakes against Madrid, the matter was considered closed in the group.
Source: La Verdad
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