“Everyone repeats it, but it’s not true”

The nice reinforcement of PSG’s victory of their go to to FC Barcelona was Luis Enrique. The Asturian coach, who had six casualties for the match – virtually all of them important – discovered the method to come back again and neutralize Flick’s crew in Montjuïc.

Luis Enrique then went by way of the press room and starred in a placing episode when confronted with a particular query from a French journalist. Thus, the Spanish coach had a verbal trade over what he thought of an unfair argument that’s repeated about his crew.

All of it arose from the next query: “Jules Kundé stated that your victory was effectively deserved and that he was stunned that you simply have been a lot bodily superior. It’s a bit shocking understanding that you simply had no preparation. Have you ever additionally been stunned by the bodily high quality of the crew?”

Whereas listening, Luis Enrique already twisted his face and the primary phrases that got here out of his mouth have been ironic: “No. No. Should you inform me no, I am going to say sure. And in case you inform me sure, I am going to say no,” he stated with a tone that in flip mirrored tiredness.

“If we’re the crew in Europe that has skilled the least…” he added. “That is a cliché,” he stated in Spanish, eager to then discover a approach to clarify it in French to the journalist who requested the query.

“How do you say it in French? A cliché is one thing that everybody repeats nevertheless it’s not true. It isn’t true. It is a cliché, that is what. It is a cliché that everybody all the time says. Bodily, bodily… however we’ve not skilled,” he added, visibly irritated.

On this manner, Luis Enrique responded forcefully to the narrative created by the variety of accidents on his crew and the quick time between video games resulting from a supposed lack of bodily preparation.

On the press convention, ‘Lucho’ additionally gave his evaluation of the match and highlighted the standard of the conflict between the 2 golf equipment, highlighting that there have been two groups with identification, able to enjoying with out resorting to harshness, which benefited the present.

“It was a superb match. If you see two groups enjoying that do not kick, that play and attempt to play and get damage with the ball… it is a very full match. They have been superior till they scored the objective. We recovered, Nuno made an unimaginable play. The second time I feel we have been higher,” he highlighted.

Regardless of the Parisian victory, Luis Enrique insisted that Barcelona stays “a transparent candidate” for the Champions League and its stage retains it among the many contenders, past a particular consequence.

“In no case [están lejos del PSG, actual campeón de Europa] for a consequence. For me, Barça is clearly among the many candidates to win the Champions League. They play splendidly, they’ve a really excessive stage and that is solely the start of the competitors,” he stated from the press room.

The coach valued the response after the league defeat against Olympique de Marseille and the collective performance. He praised Nuno Gomes and Achraf Hakimi for their influence on circulation and thanked Joan Laporta for the gesture of auctioning shirts for the Xana Foundation.