Athletic of Madrid-FC Barcelona | Reactions after the game: Oblak, very critical in the defeat; Xavi, “hit the table”

The goalkeeper of the rojiblanco team, in statements to DAZN, was critical of the first 25 minutes played by Diego Simeone’s men. In them, Barcelona dominated the match and scored the only goal of the game, the work of Ousmane Dembélé.

“It doesn’t make any sense. The last few games we’ve played we’ve been good and it wasn’t the time to go in like this. I’m sorry to everyone for having started badly. They penalized us a lot in the first 25 minutes. We have good players, it’s mentally, the game you have to start it from the first second and not when they score a goal”, he pointed out.

“We started badly. The first 20-24 minutes were pretty bad, with fear and little confidence. Then we woke up, but with 0-1 it’s difficult. They scored and it was more complicated. But then everything was done. The ball didn’t It has entered. In the end, some could enter, “he added.

Oblak also defended the good game that his teammates signed after Dembélé’s goal: “We pressed very well, we had chances, we shot on goal but we lacked a bit of luck to score. We played a good game in general. We could score but the ball didn’t go in”, he concluded.

Xavi Hernández: “We hit the table to be candidates for this league”

Xavi Hernández, coach of FC Barcelona, ​​went through the microphones of DAZN after his team’s victory in the Metropolitan against Atlético de Madrid and that places him as the sole leader of the Spanish league.

The Terrasa coach insisted on his team’s ability to suffer against an Atlético who knew how to press and had the tie, and he was very happy for “hitting the table” with the three points, which leave him as the leader by above Real Madrid.

Simeone: “Barça was 70 minutes what we 20… We didn’t put it in”

Diego Simeone, coach of Atlético de Madrid, expressed this Sunday, after the 0-1 defeat against Barcelona, ​​that his team was superior for 70 minutes and inferior in the first 20, but regretted the lack of forcefulness to score a goal in the “20 shooting situations” arranged by his team in the duel at the Metropolitan.

“If they tell me before the game that we’re going to suffer for the first 20 minutes, because you won’t be able to come out, and then you’re going to play 70 very good minutes, I’ll buy it from you, but in those 70 minutes the most important thing, which is the goal, He did not appear. We had 20 shooting situations, six, seven or eight on target, that of Griezmann…”, he reviewed at a press conference.

“We create chances, we play in a rival field… But in this beautiful football forcefulness is the most important thing in this whole game. If you don’t put it in, it’s difficult. You have forcefulness. We can train and improve it, but you have it or you don’t have it,” he added.

Busquets: “We had to take advantage of Real Madrid’s puncture”

Sergio Busquets, Barcelona midfielder, said this Sunday, after beating Atlético de Madrid 0-1, that his team had to take advantage of Real Madrid’s puncture at Villarreal and highlighted that the three points his team got at the Cívitas Metropolitano Stadium “they are very good”.

“Very happy. We knew it was a very difficult field. Real Madrid had punctured and we had to take advantage of the opportunity. That’s how it was. It was a very disputed game, we went ahead, we were able to score another goal with Pedri. Then they pressed in the second half and although they came out very strong, we knew how to control. We ended up suffering. Three very good points”, he said.

The captain of the Barça team told DAZN that it is “very important” for his team to keep a “zero” goal and recalled that in recent games Barcelona has been achieving that goal.

“Away from home it costs more. Any team in any field makes it more complicated for you and more so a team like Atlético. You have to remain solid,” he added.

“Surely it would have been better for us to be forceful in attack, have more chances and score more goals. We have been more forceful behind. With a clean sheet we have more options,” he concluded.