• Crisis: Barcelona faces its decrepitude

Ernesto Valverde has assured that the team is "urgent" to achieve victory on Saturday against Celta for leading two games without winning and for the "feeling" in the Blaugrana environment, although he believes they can do well again and has denied Be worried about your future in the team.

"We need a victory because we come from losing against Levante in six minutes . We need a victory, it is true, and find the path of triumph because we know what it means to lose. We are motivated to do so, we are more urged by the feeling that there is and to maintain the leadership, "he explained at a press conference.

Valverde's longest answer was to the question of whether there was any problem between Messi and Griezmann, due to their lack of soccer understanding. "There is a lot of talk about that and I have the feeling that everything is much simpler than it seems. Griezmann is accustomed to a game very different from ours; any uncheck, the ball was going to be thrown. In our case it is different, we mature the play more, "he explained.

"It is more complicated when the player sees you and you uncheck. But it is generous, it is always there. And when you run and do not give it to yourself, you have to recover the position. They are different styles and you have to get used to find the right time to do it. It also cost Neymar the first year, "he relativized in this regard.

As for that feeling, it refers to the criticism that the team has received for losing against Levante and drawing against Slavia Prague . "Understand it or not, this is what it is. I don't have much to say except that if the game had been better and we had won or scored a goal in the first half, everyone would be calmer," he said.

It wasn't like that, and now winning Celta is "important for everything." "We have two games in which we have not won and that always generates instability . We do not echo much of those who want us to get out of balance. We have to keep the pulse and be firm. It is not the first time this has happened and other times we have done well. We are the first and we want to continue being there, "he said.

"For not closing matches"

In addition, about the defeats, he believes that they arrived because they did not know how to close the matches, since, like the Levante, some started with an advantage on the scoreboard. "It is true that we have been well in some of them, others escaped in an incredible way for not closing the games. The abnormal thing is that you get so many points to the second and third. Normally, the Leagues are matched," he said. .

In this sense, he highlighted in negative that they have already added three defeats. "The top teams have lost more points. At least it is our case. We have missed points, we have already lost three games and are the ones we lost last year in the season . And this year we have lost them in very few days" , lament.

Despite losing in Valencia and not passing the draw against Slavia on Tuesday, he gave the players rest on Wednesday and Thursday in a decision criticized by some means. "With two trainings we prepared the Slavia because we had no more. It is usual to have two sessions to prepare each game. There are no more. There are seven days and two days of the game, two of preparation and another of recovery, seven. No give for more, "he said.

And he was also calm when asked if he was worried about his continuity on the bench due to the 'bad streak'. "No," he said before explaining that he feels well supported in the club by the Board of Directors. "In the last days we were eating with the president. I feel respected and supported here and there is no problem with this," he said.

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On the Celta of Vigo, in descent and with change of coach, with the arrival of the former uscar García on the bench, he assured that they will end up leaving the red zone. "They are in a difficult situation, they have gotten down. In the last games they hurt the goal at the last minute of Betis , in a game well played, and in Getafe they had that nervousness about the situation," he said.

"But they have good players, it is not normal that they have so few goals with Aspas, Rafinha, Denis, Mina ... In the long run they will get out of there, they need to recover that confidence point to show the talent they have, they are a great team I think, "he said.

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