Betis – Barcelona (2-3): A defense to shake in Barcelona | LaLiga Santander 2019

“I think it is necessary to unify criteria, because some moves are going to see them and others are not,” says Quique Setin about the VAR

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Maybe Quique Setin He is transmitting better sensations than he sent Ernesto Valverde, but there is something that the relay on the bench, at least for now, has not managed to change: the defensive fragility of Bara. The Barça team has a hard time keeping their goalkeeper to zero. In fact, since the relay took place on the bench, the Barcelona team has only been able to leave a match without conceding any goal in the round of 16 duel of the Copa del Rey against Legans (5-0). The rest of his rivals, including Ibiza, have been able to beat him at least once.

The center of the defense is, at the moment, one of the great Achilles heels of the Barça team. Currently, Quique Setin only has three central teams of the first team, of which Gerard Piqu, low by sanction in the Villamarn, is the only right-handed, since the club broke off in the last winter market of Jean-Clair Todibo, assigned to Schalke 04 with a purchase option for the Germans. Clment Lenglet He lost the game against Getafe after seeing the red and following a yellow suspension, while Samuel Umtiti, on the other hand, seems to be far from its best form. The former Olympique de Lyon player chained one error after another throughout the first part of the duel against Betis and multiplied the feeling of fragility that the Barça defender has transmitted throughout the current season.

In what we wear from League, Bara has conceded 28 goals, 11 of them at home and 17 away from Camp Nou. That is, twice as many as Real Madrid has received from Zinedine Zidane. Of the 23 matches he has played so far in the league championship, in addition, he has only been able to leave his goalkeeper to zero seven times. Interestingly, the opponent who has been able to punish with greater harshness that defensive weakness also wears Barca: the Levante. The Granota team defeated the team then led by Valverde 3-1 in the Ciutat de Valncia after Leo Messi put his team ahead from the penalty spot.

“We have improved a lot”

Quique Setin, despite everything, was happy with the performance of the team. I think we have improved a lot, we are not receiving so many occasions. It is true that due to the way of playing there are always some imbalances that we try to correct, but I am quite happy with the defensive attitude the team has had, both in this match and in Bilbao. I think that in the second part we practically do not grant any occasion, I say. His main complaint, how not, had the VAR as the protagonist: We have an extraordinary tool that helps us make football more fair. Maybe it is too early to get the most out of it, but I think it will be necessary to unify criteria, because there are plays that in one game are going to see them and not in others.

I keep many things, not just the game and the result. We must give a lot of value to this victory, he said. It is very important, because it allows us to stay there, in the high positions, and for the emotional support that it will suppose. We are growing and this will allow us to continue doing it, the technician said.

“Bara should have stayed with 10”

For his part, Rubi said that FC Barcelona had to have stayed with 10 after a strong entry of Sergi Roberto to Ale in the 38th minute and that without a doubt would have changed the future of the game. After 1-1 we had a little bad because we can not push up, but I think we have remade ourselves. And then with 2-1 I have seen the most touched Bara. In the 38th minute, Bara had to stay with 10, there is no discussion, Betis coach insisted.

In that play there is no type of discussion, and if then you add that we have lacked picarda … because in the second part we have paid. You cannot make the slightest mistake against this type of equipment and we have committed them, Rubi nuance, upset with the arbitration of Jos Mara Snchez Martnez.