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Barcelona have been going by means of a lean patch by way of ends in La Liga in latest weeks.
Certainly, having gained 11 of their first 12 league video games, the Blaugrana, who proceed to stay on the high of the desk, have been victorious in solely one among their final six matches within the Spanish high flight.
Hansi Flick’s males have collected simply 5 of the obtainable 18 factors on this run, shedding back-to-back dwelling matches to Las Palmas and Leganes.
Raphinha highlights causes for Barcelona’s dip
Talking to ESPN forward of Barcelona’s conflict towards Atletico Madrid on Saturday, in-form ahead and one of many crew captains, Raphinha, mentioned the latest run of type, stating fatigue and lack of focus as the explanations for the dip.
“It’s right down to us. We’ve been dangerous. We’ve dropped our degree. Perhaps we’ve lacked focus in moments and it’s value us,” stated Raphinha.
“And tiredness as properly. If I let you know we weren’t drained in sure video games once we dropped factors, I’d be mendacity. So tiredness I feel is the most important issue, however we’ve additionally dropped our degree,” he added.
Nevertheless, the Brazilian worldwide expressed optimism that Barcelona have what it takes to come back out of the latest rut, as he stated:
“Sure, [we will] come by means of this. I’ve a tattoo that claims that ‘Every part passes,’ that means the dangerous moments move and the great ones, too, so it’s going to move.
“We’re doing good, we had an excellent second [at the start of the season], entered a nasty second, and that may move. That’s life. It’s how soccer is and life can also be the identical.”
On what he thinks would assist Barcelona to finish this streak of poor outcomes, Raphinha added:
“What I feel is we’ve to strategy each sport, each crew, like essentially the most highly effective crew on this planet. If we did that, I feel we might be rather more targeted, to defend collectively, assault collectively and extra targeted to attain objectives.
“If we go into each sport considering it’s crucial, we will probably be higher.”
Kounde agrees with Raphinha’s evaluation
Kounde opens up on Barcelona’s latest poor type. (Picture by Alex Caparros/Getty Photos)
In the meantime, Barcelona defensive mainstay Jules Kounde, who’s the participant to have performed essentially the most minutes in 2024, agreed with Raphinha’s evaluation in regards to the Catalans’ lack of focus harming them.
“It’s a bit of little bit of all the things,” Kounde instructed ESPN. “We’re simply enjoying rather less good in each facet of the sport.
“We begin with the strain [not being as good], it’s additionally the main focus, technically we’re shedding too many balls, particularly in La Liga as a result of we’ve been doing good within the Champions League.”
Whereas giving credit score to the opponents, the Frenchman insisted that the Barça are largely at blame for his or her points.
“I’d say it’s us more often than not. I give credit score to the crew who beat us or draw towards us, however in each sport, we had the possibility to win it and we simply didn’t play ok or rating our possibilities. It’s as much as us to rectify it.”
Nevertheless, the right-back expressed optimism about Barcelona’s possibilities towards Atletico Madrid tomorrow, saying:
“We like these video games [against teams like Atletico]. We’ve carried out nice in these video games, let’s say the massive video games, thus far this season.”
