Barcelona suffered another frustration in the Champions League on Tuesday, when they lost 4-1 to PSG in the first leg of the round of 16 at the Camp Nou. Kylian Mbappe was the main figure of the match, while Lionel Messi had to endure a new despair with his team on the verge of elimination from the competition.
“Barça is a sinking team today, which even Messi cannot save from shipwreck,” he said. Hernan Pereyra in the mid-week edition of the podcast “It’s like that”, to add below that “although Messi did not play a great game, especially in the second half, I must say that if until yesterday he had doubts about staying at the club or leaving at the end of the season, he confirmed certainly the beginning is the best choice. Being able to go to one of the two big teams like PSG and Manchester City, it can be assumed that they want to get off a sinking ship to avoid drowning “.
In another part of his analysis, Hernán Pereyra once again acknowledged that “Messi is a player who cannot recover from adversity and does not find immediate solutions when the game is not favorable to his team. If the team is bad, so is Messi. And, as I have mentioned many times, he does not have the rebellion to overcome a bad moment, nor is he the leader who will lift the team’s spirit and attitude when they play poorly. And yesterday it turned out again. “
Regarding the analysis of the game process itself, the ESPN analyst said that this defeat leaves Barcelona on the verge of being eliminated from the Champions League and that what happened yesterday can be explained in a simple way. “I signed 1-0 for Barcelona playing at home. But Koeman’s team made the mistake of continuing to play the same way after taking advantage of the gift of a penalty and obtaining the advantage “, he considered. “I would have bet to defend that advantage, playing as a small team, changing the approach and defending the advantage to try to take advantage of some against. But that didn’t happen and PSG passed it in the second half “.
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In Jorge Ramos and his team, Llorens states that the culé team did not have the desire to defeat PSG.
“Barcelona could not compete against a team that showed an abysmal difference in strategic, physical and individual materials between the two teams,” he explained. “While PSG bets on the team game and not on saving a figure, who attacks with defenders, who knows how to control the midfield and when he accelerates it makes a difference, Barcelona, as I said on other occasions, is no longer the big one. was. Today they have to fight to enter the positions of European competitions and no more than that. It is closer to those in the middle and even to those below, than to the strong ones who are fighting for titles, either in Spain or in Europe ”.
Finally, criticism of Barcelona ended with Pereyra stating that “the institution has not done well lately and has relied on laurels. Speaking of Champions, last year he ended his participation receiving 8 goals from Bayern Munich, while now, in the first match of the eighth finals, he receives 4 in his own stadium against a PSG that had neither Di María nor Neymar. The reality of the culé team is very difficult “, he concluded.
Note: edition of “So is the period, includes his opinion Pereyra on the elimination of CONMEBOL Yes Concacaf and the possibility that Andre-Pierre Gignac and Tigers I agree to a new contract.