Surprise Riqui Puig: Koeman rules it out for a Gamper in which Barça beats Elche (1-0)

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Ronald Koeman

seems to have put the cross on another

player

.

In this case, to one who had raised so far many expectations among the Barcelona fans:

.

His name was joined for the first time by those of

and a previously unpublished

(he has not even been officially presented as a Barça player) as a

in a call for the Dutch coach.

From

was pointed out that he told the young midfielder that he does not have him.

The Dutchman, however, wanted to deny that point.

Half.

"It is not true. I spoke with him on Friday morning. I always speak with the young people, and

. That goes for him, for

and

. I told him it will be It is very difficult for him to have minutes, because there is a

, but I also told him that he

, "a Koeman explained in a statement to TV3 who would not look badly at being asked for a loan.

"At 17, these boys have to play, and the same goes for Pedri and

. What happens with Riqui is that he has a lot of competition in his position," the Dutchman tried to emphasize, although the young forward, the The last great Barcelona sensation, he started in a duel in which Koeman placed an initial eleven on the field of play that could very well be the one that he will have on Sunday of next week, at 9:00 p.m., against

in which it will be its debut in the League.

Both Riqui Puig and

, according to TV3 cameras, followed Barça's third friendly from the Camp Nou stands.

Against Elche, in a

without an audience, the Barça team was enough with a solitary and early riser both from Griezmann to take the victory (1-0).

Was .

Neto, with Ter Stegen still convalescing from his operation on his right knee, is still the starting goalkeeper.

In defense, meanwhile, he formed with

.

In the double pivot, Sergio

were his bets.

, for their part, were the midfielders and

, the striker.

The Frenchman, precisely, did not take too long to honor his position by opening the scoreboard when the first two minutes of play had barely been played after taking advantage of an assist from Jordi Alba.

The Barça attack, however, went from more to less throughout a first half in which Elche did not manage to disturb the Barcelona defense at any time.

Messi had a great option that

, the Elche goalkeeper, was in charge of disrupting with a very good intervention and Coutinho, very active throughout the first 45 minutes, also found the odd opportunity to try to increase the differences in the luminous.

The Brazilian, in fact, was named even the best player of the match.

The 1-0 early riser achieved by Griezmann, despite everything, was completely immovable until the break.

The Catalans jumped onto the pitch at the resumption convinced of putting a little more dirt in between.

And they were about to achieve it through Ansu Fati.

Again, without fortune.

It would not take much longer for the young forward to go to the bench.

, with more desire than fortune, would be in charge of taking over from him.

And the same would be done by Pjanic, in his debut as a Barça player, and Trincao with Sergio Busquets and Griezmann, respectively.

Edgar Badia, by far, continued to show himself as Elche's fittest player.

Not surprisingly, last season he was already one of the best goalkeepers in Second and set a great mark by leaving a clean sheet up to three times in the playoffs for promotion to First.

The difficulties of Barça

to widen the differences on the scoreboard spurred Elche to look with a little more insistence for attacking options.

To such an extent, that Neto had to show his good reflexes to frustrate the shot of a Bri who stood unopposed in the Barcelona area and that practically smelled like a goal.

The rival's chance led Barça to wake up from the lethargy they seemed to have gotten into.

He pulled his best weapon, ball control, to force all his rivals to play defensive tasks.

Only his goalkeeper stayed in the Barcelona half of the field.

His harassment, despite everything, failed to find a prize and Jorge Almirón's team took a defeat by the minimum in the last test for the Catalans.

Next week, against Villarreal, everything will be serious.

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• Ronald Koeman

• Ansu Fati

• Jordi Alba

• Sergio Busquets

• Pedri

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• Coutinho

• Trincão

• Ter Stegen

• Ousmane Dembélé

• Matheus fernandes

• Frenkie de Jong

• Arturo vidal

• Antoine Griezmann

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