“It is not serious to miss two penalties at Barça.” Koeman can be accused of some things, but not with keeping anything in public. “We have to talk,” he said angrily at the end of the game against Cornellà. The individual mistakes of his players, improper for a club like Barça, are exhausting his patience to such an extent that his players begin to drive him out of their boxes. It is not that Koeman is dissatisfied with the attitude of his players, but it seems that in some cases he is with their skills, which condemn the team with gross errors. The list starts to get endless.
Koeman believes in his heart that if they are practically out of the LaLiga race it is exclusively due to individual errors. The mess that Piqué and Neto made against Alavés in Vitoria; Cádiz's incomprehensible goal with a triple error by Alba, Lenglet and Ter Stegen; the penalty that De Jong committed against Getafe; Carrasco's goal at Wanda …
The last week has finished turning Koeman on. With the Super Cup won, he reproached De Jong for his lack of experience to go to the ground in the area in an action in the last minutes of the Super Cup final that could have meant a penalty to close the match. Then came the child foul and the tender defense that allowed Vllalibre to 2-2 and that it was continued in the 2-3 of Williams … The last straw was Cornellà's penalties. Koeman explained it well. You can always miss a penalty, he knows it well that he has been one of the best specialists ever. But two, and that this drag Barça to play its third extension in a week in a row, turns him on. It does not seem, however, that half a season after starting, Barça is in time to change that dynamic. So many individual mistakes are no accident. “We have to talk”, was the phrase that best expressed that the Dutchman is tired of repeating mistakes at Barça.