Barcelona suffered a fresh frustration in the Champions League on Tuesday when they lost 4-1 to PSG in the first leg of the round of 16 played at the Nou Camp. Kylian Mbappé was the big figure of the match, while Lionel Messi had to endure another debacle with his team about to be eliminated.
“Barça today is a sinking team, which cannot even save Messi from the shipwreck,” he said. Hernan Pereyra in the midweek edition of the podcast ‘It is so and it is’, adding below that “although Messi didn’t play a great game, especially in the second half, I have to say that if he was in doubt until yesterday whether he would stay with the club or leave when the season is over, he certainly confirmed that the start is your best choice. Because we can go to one of two great teams like PSG and Manchester City, it can be assumed that they want to get off a sinking ship to avoid drowning ”.
In another part of his analysis, Hernán Pereyra once again acknowledged that “Messi is a player who cannot recover from setbacks, nor does he find immediate solutions when the game is not favorable for his team. If the team is bad, so is Messi. And as I’ve said many times, he doesn’t have that rebellion to overcome a bad moment, nor is he the leader who will improve the team’s spirit and attitude when they play badly. And yesterday it was proven again ”.
Regarding the analysis of the game process itself, the ESPN analyst said Barcelona is on the brink of being eliminated from the Champions League by this defeat, and that what happened yesterday can be explained in a simple way. “I have signed 1-0 for home games of Barcelona. But Koeman’s team made the mistake of continuing to play in the same way after taking advantage of the gift of a penalty and getting the advantage, ”he thought. “I would have bet to defend that advantage by playing as a small team, changing the approach and defending the advantage to try and take advantage of some against. But that didn’t happen and PSG passed it in the second half ”.
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In Jorge Ramos and his Band, Llorens confirms that the culé team had no desire to beat PSG.
“Barcelona could not compete with a team that showed a huge difference in strategic, physical and individual material between both teams,” he explained. While PSG is betting on the collective game and not on being saved by a figure, who attacks with fullbacks, who knows how to control midfield and when it accelerates, it makes all the difference, Barcelona, as I said on other occasions. , is no longer the great that he was. Today he has to fight to reach positions in European competitions and no more than that. He is closer to those in the middle, and even to those below, than to the powerful who fight titles, either in Spain or Europe ”.
Finally, criticism of Barcelona ended when Pereyra said that “the institution has not been doing well lately and has rested on its laurels. Speaking of champions, last year he ended his participation by receiving 8 goals from Bayern Munich, while now, in the first match of the round of 16, he receives 4 in his own stadium against a PSG that had neither Di María nor Neymar . . The reality of the culé team is very difficult ”, he concluded.
Note: the edition of ‘It’s so and period ‘, also includes the view of Pereyra on the elimination of Conmebol Y Concacaf and the possibility that Andre-Pierre Gignac and Tigers agree to a new contract.