The central defender of Barcelona, Pau Comatarsi, admitted that he and his teammates gave “not 100%” in the disappointing 1-1 draw on Saturday with Real Betis.
The leaders from La Liga took the lead this weekend in front of their own fans. Gavi, a former Real Betis Youth Team Player, ended a crispy pass sequence to break the deadlock in the seventh minute. However, the competition was less than 20 minutes old when Natan drove from a poorly defended corner in Betis’ Equalizer.
The Catalan giants played in record rating form this season, but hardly created a note on Saturday evening. Barcelona recorded a massive expected destination (XG) of 1.3 – a number that in this campaign in this campaign in all of them except three league games.
Commessi has reduced this noticeable break -in on the team’s collective work ethic or the absence of it. “We have done things well in the past few days, but today we lacked the determination and even more wish to win,” concluded the surprisingly pronounced 18-year-old after the game. “They could see on the field that we did not give 100%and they couldn’t win. We had the desire to end the game from the start. We gave them life and energy, and in the end they were able to pull off a draw.”
“We tried to give everything in the second half,” added Commessi. “We didn’t get out in the first half. The pace of the game was slow, and I will tell you that it was even boring for the fans.”
There was no attempt to accuse the overloaded calendar of Cubarsi. “We have to try,” the teenager fluctuated when he continued his tirade. “We knew that we came to the match with a heavy cargo and a few days, but that’s not an excuse if we want to win as many titles as possible because we are Barca. We ran too much against Atletico Madrid because the second half was not quite good, and it showed up today.”
Raphinha demonstrated his acute displeasure with an oral attack on the Assistant referee in the final phase of the competition on Saturday. The Brazilian seemed to say to the official: “You don’t tell me that I should hold the flap, you don’t tell me that I should hold the flap! You are rude, badly shaped.” Robert Lewandowski, Hansi Flick and Marc-Andre Ter Stegen tried to suppress Raphhinha’s boiling temperament.
Flick represented a more positive view of the draw on Saturday. “I am satisfied with this one point because we have one game less and one more point,” he said to La League TVMaybe with Real Madrid’s defeat against Valencia earlier a day. “There are days in which they create opportunities, but the opponent holds up and sits deeply, and this was such a game.”
Barcelona has a lead of four points on the summit of La Liga and has a quarter -finals of the Champions League against Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday to prepare for it.