The Blaugranas coach is under fire from critics after sharing in Vigo.
This Saturday, FC Barcelona missed important points in the title race in the last minutes of the match against Celta Vigo. A sharing that does not help the Blaugranas who could see their big competitor, Real Madrid take two points ahead if they win tonight at Espanyol Barcelona six days before the end of the championship.
And as often in these cases, it is the coach who is criticized. Quique Setién is under pressure in Catalonia and the Spanish media did not spare him this morning: “The coach has lost the confidence of the locker room. You can see that during the ‘hydration breaks’. Setién barely talks to his players and delegates to his assistant Eder Sarabia because many of them ignore him when he speak”, can we read this morning in everyday life Brand.
In the same tone, everyday life AS points out that since his arrival in January, Setién has not improved Barça’s game compared to his predecessor Ernesto Valverde, who still had the support of the locker room. A shock support that Setién does not have according to the Spanish newspaper.
If the Iberian press is very critical, Luis Suarez, double scorer against Vigo was also acerbic towards his coach: “Obviously, it’s great to be able to help my team with two goals”, he explained to Spanish journalists, “But I’m very disappointed with the loss of points tonight (Saturday night, Editor’s note). What’s wrong with us? Ask the coach, it’s up to him to analyze this.”
An outing that shows that the relationship between the Catalan coach and his players is not looking good.
Quique Setién himself was disappointed with the result this Saturday as he told a post-match press conference: “We shouldn’t have been in this situation. We should have returned to the locker room with a more comfortable lead at break”, he said before thinking about the rest of the competition, “Our margin of error is shrinking. In theory, we must now win our next six games and count on an error from our rivals. We will try to take as many points as possible. I could give thousands of explanations but I do not think that one of them is the cause of our failure. “
Arrived last January after the dismissal of Ernesto Valverde, Quique Setién makes his first experience at Barça in a club of the top European after having trained Las Palmas and Betis Sévile
In thirteen meetings on the Barça bench, his record is nine wins, two draws and two defeats. A satisfactory record but which may be insufficient to be able to conquer the La Liga title this season.
And according to the Spanish press, with a contract running until 2022 but with the possibility of breaking it for free at the end of next season, the situation of Setién is not stable in Barcelona. And he may well have to pack up if he does not win the Champions League next August.
