Prick of Barça in Cornellà: "We lost two points"

• Chronicle: Espanyol denies Barça

Again, Barça signed a bad game away from Camp Nou . And, on this occasion, Espanyol made him pay. In the end, not as expensive as it could have been a defeat, but with a final tie that tastes like glory for the Blue and Whites and was bitter for Barcelona. "We did the most difficult thing, which was to overcome and in the end the feeling is that we lost two points," Luis Suarez said as soon as the meeting ended in statements to Movistar LaLiga.

The Uruguayan, despite everything, wanted to emphasize that there is no concern in the locker room for the bad games that Barça is signing as a visitor this season. Although, yes, he admitted that you have to get down to work. "It would be worrisome if we didn't have answers, but we have to improve, " said a Luis Suarez who, against Espanyol, scored his eleventh goal in the League this season. And, in addition, he was in charge of assisting an Arturo Vidal who scored the momentary 1-2 for Barcelona.

"I am using Arturo Vidal many times from the bench, but when he starts as a starter he also brings the same. He has different characteristics than the others. Perhaps he is not as academic in the position game as the rest, he is more messy, but that is often a virtue. It is something that allows him to appear from the second line, as he has done on this occasion, "said the Barca coach, Ernesto Valverde , in the press room of Cornellà-El Prat.

"There have been several games in which the opponent has advanced us, which is a possibility, and in some we could turn it around. We have the ability to react, but we need to close the game at the last minute, although this time it has conditioned us a little expulsion, "the Barça coach analyzed. "Staying with 10, more than anything because you always expect a final rush of the opponent, is complicated, but we never lost face to the game and we even had an option for 11-3 that Diego López took out Luis Suarez. It's a reaction that has had, it has been very clear. It has conditioned us relatively, because the opponent puts you back, but you can have counterattack options, as we have had, "reiterated a Valverde who wanted to split a spear in favor of his former team.

"The teams that are below always look for in each game that moment that is a turning point, something that gives them hope, that makes them grow, and that is what Espanyol is also doing. Abelardo has arrived , the public is very mentalized and, surely, with this tie at the last minute, they will seek to hold on to it and play matches like this, supportive, hard. No one escapes that in the second round many points can still be made, "said the Barca coach, who was in command of the parakeet group between 2006 and 2008.

He did not have an easy rival to start 2020, but Espanyol made it very clear that he is blindly confident in achieving survival. The club opened before the club a new tunnel of costumes , with the blue color as the main protagonist, and saw with pleasure, sure, how the public fully communed with the team in the prolegomena of the derby. Before starting the duel, the blue and white scarves flooded the stands, the Curve deployed a typhoon with the message 'Always against the tide' and the notes of a version of 'I Will Survive' sounded. All a declaration of intentions that Wu Lei would materialize with the goal of the tie in the final stretch of the match.

" We could have won , but we have to be proud because we gave it our all. These guys don't give up and show we're going to the end. The derbies are won, they don't play ... And today we have lacked a little," he said. David López, author of 1-0, in statements to Movistar LaLiga as soon as the match was over. From his point of view, communion with the stands is vital to achieve permanence. "That people are like that, that they support us until the end, is what will make us go out. We start a new League, they will call us crazy, but we will get it, sure," he said.

"It is a point of pride for my players. We are not having a good time and they are the first who want to change the situation. We have competed as a team, we have been one, and I am sure that our people have felt proud. This is going to be a turning point for Espanyol, "added a Abelardo who called to maintain this line. "We have to compete like this, as we have done against Barça. It will not be easy," said the new blue and white coach.

Like all derbies, it was a high-tension game in which, once again, Gerard Piqué focused all the wrath of the blue and white fans. Not only was he heard loudly almost every time he came into contact with the ball, but he also again heard that song that calls into question multiple edges of his relationship with the Colombian singer Shakira. Something that, according to Barcelona's own defense in La Resistencia confessed, does not affect him in the least. "They sing it, and I take it off," he said long ago.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

• Luis Suarez
• Arturo vidal
• Shakira Mebarak
• The resistance
• Gerard Piqué
• Ernesto Valverde

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