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The Brazilian press described Santos as a “fragile in attack” and “unresolved” team against Barcelona Sporting Club, in the victory (0-2) of the Canaries at the Vila Belmiro stadium, on Tuesday evening, on the first day of Group C of the Copa Libertadores 2021. The newspapers also weighed the presentation of Fabián Bustos’ students.

“Barcelona de Guayaquil, an orderly rival with an interesting game philosophy, he did what he wanted in Villa BelmiroHe analyzed Globe Sports. “He dominated Santos at all times, under the baton of the great Damián Díaz and seemed to play at home.”

In the 53rd minute, the Ecuadorian club took the lead in the 53rd minute thanks to a goal by Carlos Garcés and extended the lead to 69 with a score against defender Pará. While, The crossbar was deflected for Díaz to score in the 61st minute with a shot from outside the box.

The criticism of the host team was relentless: “The decisions of the Argentine (coach Ariel Holan) had no effect, but the blame for the inappropriate start of Peixe can be attributed to the players. No one was able to stand out. On the contrary, everything went wrong, without exception. A shocking number: Santos missed a shot on goal for 90 minutes while the ball rolled. Santos, apparently delivered and without solutions, only saw Barcelona playing “.

newspaper Folha de S. Paulo He said of the Brazilian distribution that it is “fragile in attack” and “He didn’t even force the goalkeeper (Javier) Burrai to work“While he highlighted the performance of the Bustos team:” It was a more conscientious team throughout the confrontation and knew how to play with the state of the field. “

Marinho: We did not do what we were asked to do

Striker Marinho was self-critical after the loss of Santos to Barcelona. “I didn’t work,” he said, though he felt Peixe couldn’t regret it too much in front of the other Libertadores group games.

The statements of the 30-year-old striker were collected by the newspaper Stay: “I was far below what the teacher (Holan) asked for, I did not do what he asked for. Usually it is the coach’s fault, but what he asked for got out of hand; we don’t work. Now we can’t regret it too much. We will have an away match against Boca Juniors (April 27). We have to add, we haven’t done our homework and now we have to work, correct the mistakes and do what the teacher asks us to do. We don’t have much time to work, it’s game after game “.

Holan regrets the weakness in attack and the condition of the field

In the post-match press conference, DT Holan spoke about the weaknesses that his team had, especially in attack: “I think that in most of the starts we managed to enter the rival field, but when we entered we did not have depth. Some goal situations were taken advantage of by Barcelona, ​​but the biggest problem was every time I entered the opposite field and I couldn’t give depth ”.

The strategist also referred to the complications due to the state of the court: “It was a game that until the 20th minute was one. Then, with the completely wet grass, it was different. We couldn’t adapt to the game when the ground was wet. It was hard for us to turn the ball from side to side. Barcelona was well armed, putting pressure on whoever had the ball. We want to play with the ball at our feet, to be vertical, but it was very difficult to have that game “. (D)