Barcelona suffered another frustration in the Champions League on Tuesday by falling 4-1 to PSG in the first leg of the round of 16 at the Camp Nou. Kylian Mbappe was the main figure of the match while Lionel Messi had to endure a new debacle with his team that was on the verge of eliminating the competition.
“Barça is a sinking team today, and not even Messi can save him from the wreck,” he said. Hernán Pereyra in the mid-week edition of the podcast ‘It’s Like That’, To add below that “although Messi did not play a great game, especially in the second half, I must say that if until yesterday I had doubts about staying at the club or leaving when the season ends, I have surely confirmed that the “Exit is the best. Being able to go to one of two great teams like PSG and Manchester City, it could well be that you want to get off a sinking ship to avoid drowning.”
In another part of his analysis, Hernán Pereyra reiterated that “Messi is a player who fails to recover from adversity, nor does he find immediate solutions when the match is not favorable for his team. team is bad, Messi too.And as I have mentioned many times, he does not have this rebellion to overcome a bad moment, nor is he the leader who lifted the spirits and attitude of the team when he plays badly. And yesterday it was proven again. “
As for the analysis of the game process itself, the ESPN analyst argued that this defeat leaves Barcelona on the brink of elimination from the Champions League, and that what happened yesterday can explain in a simple way. “I signed the 1-0 for Barcelona playing as a local. 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.” has considered. “I would have bet on defending that advantage, playing like a young team, changing the approach and defending the advantage to try to take advantage of some against. But that didn’t happen and PSG overcame it in the second half.”
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Jorge Ramos and his Band, Llorens states that the Catalan team did not want to beat PSG.
“Barcelona could not compete against a team that showed an abysmal difference in strategic, physical and individual material between the two teams,” he explained. “While PSG is committed to the collective game and not to being saved by a figure, who attacks with sides, who knows how to control the middle of the field and who when he accelerates makes a difference, Barcelona, as I said in other times, he is no longer the great he used to be.Today he is struggling to enter positions of European competence and no more than that.he is closer to those in the middle and even those below, than to the powerful that fight titles, either in Spain or Europe “.
Finally, criticism of Barcelona ended with Pereyra stating that “the institution has not done things well lately and has fallen asleep in the Laurels. Speaking of Champions, last year he ended his participation receiving 8 goals from the “Bayern Munich, while now, in the first game of the round of 16, receives April in their own stadium against a PSG that did not have either Di Maria or Neymar. The reality of the Catalan team is very hard.” he finished.
Note: Editing ‘It’s So and Point ‘, Also includes opinion Pereyra on the playoffs of CONMEBOL i Concacaf and the possibility that Andre-Pierre Gignac i tigers agree a new contract.