BARCELONA – Fifteen games later Ronald Koeman, for the first time, seemed to surrender to the evidence. If until today his speech, untouchable, focused on the fact that “there is a lot of season ahead”, after the draw against Eibar he already admitted that thinking about winning the League is little less than a chimera.
“Being realistic the championship is very complicated. There is nothing impossible in this life but we must recognize that reducing the distance of points with Atletico, which is very good, will be very difficult” proclaimed the Dutch coach, sincere and with a defeatist tone that had not been contemplated before.
Koeman admitted this circumstance but remained unaltered in proclaiming that his team, as in other games, had to win because, he said, “we played a good game,” recovering, he said, from a first half in which things did not turn out as I expected.
“In the first half we had trouble getting the ball from behind. We were not looking for play between the lines and I don’t know why, for fear of risking playing above … But we had chances again” he resolved, unintentionally come to assess whether the absence of Messi had been decisive.
“I don’t mean that we lacked experienced people … There is a transition in the team, there are injuries and we played with a lot of young people. But today there was a lot of experience in the team and yes, we lacked I read that it makes a difference , but the feeling is to think that it is not possible not to have won because we have created many occasions, we missed a penalty, we give a goal in his only shot on goal … There have been many things against “lamented the coach Dutchman, who rejected that Messi’s absence was so transcendental.
“We didn’t win because Leo wasn’t there … We played a good game but it’s hard for us to score and as in other games, individual mistakes have weighed too heavily on us. It’s happened like in other games,” he summed up.