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De Jong speaks of “lack of personality” and Sergi responds: “We are playing with children”

BarcelonaCelta rubbed their hands with the fragility shown by Barça in a second half in which the job well done in the first half was thrown in the trash. “In the second half we were very stopped. We lacked personality. We have to offer more. This match was very important: it is a very hard blow for us,” Frenkie de Jong told the microphones of Movistar, just after of the last goal of the Galician team, which came 40 seconds after five minutes added. “I think five minutes added was already enough, and then he added one more minute for a side service. I had never seen that, that. When we go back on the scoreboard that doesn’t happen,” he complained. Dutch midfielder, one of the few players to have faced the second half.

Sergi Barjuan, meanwhile, has poured much of his explanations with the three muscle injuries – Ansu, Eric and Nico – that the team has suffered against Celta. “I don’t want it to be an excuse, but managing Barça right now is not easy, because there are a lot of injuries. When they recover, this team will be able to fight for things,” said the coach. “How do I explain that there are so many muscle injuries? I don’t know, it’s a very strange situation. You should know what’s going on, look for the reasons … So that the players don’t suffer anymore, because that’s very important for the future of the team, “Sergi insisted.

The interim coach, who has led his last game with the first team, also valued De Jong’s statements about the team’s lack of personality. “If you look at the squad we are playing with children. It is difficult to make these assessments, because we lack many players … When we are all there, the training sessions are better and the competition goes up because everyone wants to play. At the moment we are counting the pieces “. Finally, the coach did not go into assessing Coutinho’s visibly passing attitude when he made him start to warm up in the first half when Ansu was injured: “I am not aware of what is happening on the bench. I know … “

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