MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish media on Friday shed light on the negative mood that dominated Barcelona's dressing room after Wednesday's lackluster victory over Czech Republic Slavia Prague in the Champions League group stage.
Barcelona won 2-1 at Slavia Prague and took the points of the match to lead Group F, but the arrows of criticism started from all sides and towards the aftermath to hit all the players of the team, after appearing at a very low level at the stadium of Eden Arena, the stronghold of the Czech club.
The newspaper "Marca" Spanish that the faces of the Barcelona players after the meeting were revealing everything, and everything in their minds in relation to the technical situation of the team, and pointed out that the Barcelona players left the stadium after the game in the weighty steps, the last to leave the pitch captain Argentine team Lionel Messi.
| Messi last left the stadium (Anatolia) |
The conversation between the players witnessed moments of great tension, while the big players dominated the conversations that took place that night, according to "Marka."
"If we play like this, we won't win the Champions League," said one of the players. Marca did not reveal his identity during the heated meeting of Barcelona players after the match.
Barcelona's lackluster performance in the game recalled memories of the team's surprise exit from the Champions League against AS Roma and Liverpool, especially as Slavia Prague equalized with the Catalan club, while the latter lost control of the game.
Marca hinted that the players touched upon these two games and memories of the painful exit, and stressed that if Slavia Prague was one of the big clubs in Europe, he would have scored many goals against Barcelona that night.
The inability to bring a proper reaction to the game was not limited to the Barcelona players, but the shortcomings spread to the coaching staff, and the image of Messi taking him looking at his coach after the goal scored by Slavia Prague, looking for a satisfactory answer to what is happening Evidence of the great confusion experienced by Barcelona.
Marca said the players exchanged blame for each other after they looked like children who were unable to find an answer to what happened to them during the game despite winning in the end.
The Barcelona players are well aware that they are in urgent need to improve their technical performance if they want to compete with the old top continent and win the Champions League.