Guillem Balagué
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But also sometimes as a midfielder, he realized that there was a lot of players.
Yeah, and he realized that there was a lot of players that were passing the ball around.
He was not needed in that role.
He was needed in the role of finishing actions or making runs in behind.
And there was not a lot of that because there wasn't a lot of space and there was nobody finding him.
So imagine you start making two or three runs, which I saw him doing.
And it's not that he gave up, but interestingly enough, the message he was sending to the side is like, be patient.
Don't pass the ball just for passing it.
And yet what that was doing was the opposite.
It was slowing things down.
People didn't want to risk anything.
They didn't want to lose the ball.
They thought if there is a counter, we're going to be killed here.
So all in all, we just did not find a way.
And of course, once we got perhaps the likes of Cucurella, who was the only one who understood what was going on and running behind,
and put crosses in, there was nobody to put crosses in too, because we didn't have that number nine that can finish action.
So it was the wrong choice of players, but let's not kill everybody just yet, because actually Ferran Torres, instead of hitting the bar, scores in the first half, it would have been a completely different game.