Dissatisfied and even angry, Ronald Koeman He thanked the classification in a game “in which we had much more to lose than win”, but did not forget to point out the wrong penalties and that, according to him, “they prevented us from having a much more comfortable game than had it was. finally.
“The game had to be won before. We had a lot of chances to win, his goalkeeper was the best on the field and we lacked efficiency again, but it can’t be that you lose two penalties”, lamented the Barça coach, very angry with ‘these mistakes’, after winning 2-0 at Cornellà in overtime.
“You can’t miss two penalties as a Barcelona player. This is not serious,” said Koeman forcefully, who recalled that “there is no pressure from the public; you can miss one because it’s football stuff, but two , never, they can’t be. You have to keep a cool head.
“I don’t understand because we have enough players to score penalties; I don’t understand that we’ve missed so much lately, because if you scored a penalty today, the game would have been very different,” he repeated, without forget that this season his team has already missed 10 of the 17 throws from eleven meters.
“There is definitely something scarier than usual, because beyond Messi we do not have a shooter who can prove that he can shoot penalties. We need to improve this a lot,” he said.
“He was much more to lose than to win in a game like this. His goalkeeper was the best on the field, but it took us a long time to score to have an easier game,” the coach repeated, offering credit. to a Cornellà who, he acknowledged: “I understand that they could beat Atlético because they ran and fought until the last moment”.
Explaining that change Rique He decided it at rest “because he had a card”, claiming that the change of system came with Dembele “Have more play on the wings”, revealing directly that he continues to believe that he lacks more players, in a market hint, stressing that young people, Konrad, especially, “they showed that they can have a future at the club, but it was seen again that we lack things”.