Barcelona coach Josep Guardiola accepts they were slower against Granada – La Liga News
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604 boss Pep Guardiola has admitted that the Catalan team were "slower than usual in the circulation of the ball" in the 0-1 against Granada CF at Los Carmenes.
The coach clarified that with the squad is exhausted after being involved in so many fixtures over the last couple of weeks, and it becomes difficult to maintain the lofty standards of football expected off them.
Guardiola pinpointed that they were slow in their movement, and took too many touches on the ball before releasing it.
"We have not been quick in movement, there were many touches before the pass and that made it slow, we were overall slower than usual in the ball movement," an assured Guardiola said in the post match press conference.
The 40-year-old manager was unhappy with the fixture schedule he finds himself in and stated that they are catching up with his team as they campaign progresses.
"With eleven we would not have survived and that's the game we wanted, but we lacked a bit of movement. Sometimes with so many matches it is exhausting," added the coach Barca.
Guardiola found out time to praise his opposing number and stated that he has done a great http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Job-c18684 with his charges to play at such a high level.
The Barcelona coach feared for the win in the latter stages of the match: "Granada have very good players and anything can happen 1-0, although we had a numerical advantage."
With an exhausted batch of players on his disposal, Guardiola found the match as a good excuse to rotate his players. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Maxwell-c25051 started at left-back, and had young winger, Isaac Cuenca making his La Liga debut in front of him on the pitch.
This is the second appearance of La Masia graduate in one week, his debut for the first team coming against Viktoria Plzen.
Cuenca was praised by Guardiola for his performance stating "Isaac was bold."
After the match against Granada, the manager also found time to speak about Yaya Toure’s recent remarks about him. The Ivory Coast international has blamed Guardiola for his ousting from Camp Nou and criticised his communication with him in his last days
at the club.
Guardiola has stated that it was the midfielder who wanted his way out and asked Laporta to leave. However, he rejected to delve on the matter further, and stated that he will sort out the matter when me meets him next time.
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