Ernesto Valverde, during a press conference of the FC Barcelona

PRESS CONFERENCE OF VALVERDE

Valverde Defends to Luis Suárez: "it Is the fifth maximum goleador of the history of the Barça"

Published:22/02/2019 - 16:52h

Updated:22/02/2019 - 16:54h

The trainer of the FC Barcelona, Ernesto Valverde, has conceded a press conference in which it has analysed the party of this Saturday against the Seville, in addition to defending to Luis Suárez and speak on the fault of puntería in the last parties

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In statements conceded in press conference, Ernesto Valverde valued this Friday the immediate actuality of the FC Barcelona and the situation of the team in facets like the goleadora, in which it is flojeando during the last parties. The 'Txingurri' went out to the step of the criticisms to Luis Suárez, remembering that it is the fifth maximum goleador of the history of the Barça and that will follow marking goals.

Luis Suárez is a forward of series, like the majority, and instead of 'punish him' it is necessary to help him to that it go back to recover the tone and the confidence. Or, at least, this is what thinks Valverde. "It is well and the past week rested. It guarantees us occasions of goal. Always all locates in proper names and moments. The case of Suárez is curious. It is not the first time that happens and is the example that they go by series. We are speaking of the fifth better goleador of the history of the club, and the normal is that it go on doing it all well, is difficult to do without he".

On the same line, the trainer of the FC Barcelona had good words on Leo Messi. "Messi is as always, see it as always and the rivals have the feeling that also". It did not want to specify if it will make or no rotations in the alignment. "It does not affect the advantage that have to move the team. They will do changes if it can affect to our players".

"Messi is as always, see it as always and the rivals have the feeling that also"

Arthur Melo still is not available, at least this weekend unless there is surprise. "I have not spoken with the doctors, and are in the terms that could go in", said Valverde, conscious that to the FC Barcelona expects him an immediate calendar very hard, since after the crash in front of the Seville will arrive two Classical, one in semifinals of the Glass of Rey and the another in LaLiga Santander.

"We come of four days of rest and always is better to face the party. Afterwards they come us three very hard parties in seven days and all know of the risk that is to lose a player by an injury. We want to protect to all and all the team know it. It would not be well lose to anybody by four weeks. I see well to the team and are as it touches us be. We come to play well, to concede little and with little fortune, but this is football. It is necessary to win the three next parties. Before that the Bernabéu have a party dificilísimo in Seville. It would like us win morning and follow with the distances", left clear the 'Txingurri'.

The Seville will not put it at all easy this Saturday in the Sánchez Pizjuán. "We know the team that is. The past year empatamos at the end, after going losing by 0-2. The party for us is very important, by everything. From tomorrow we will have left it backwards and if it can be with more advantage and fewer parties, better", explained Valverde, remembering the defeat in the Sánchez Pizjuán, in Glass of Rey.

"It is a hard rival with big results with the ones of up. There we play and we lost and we know of the importance of the crash", signalled, giving the news that Samuel Umtiti could be ranged in the eleven headline, when considering that it already is to the one hundred by one hundred and fully recovered of the injury that has kept him several months of drop.

Samuel Umtiti could play in the Sánchez Pizjuán

"It is to play and in conditions. They arrive parties complicated and with players lesionados like Vermaelen, Lenglet walks apercibido and already will see if Umtiti is to be headline or no", commented on the central French, whose presence in the field would serve for oxigenar the defensive saga, where Lenglet and Hammered have played it practically all this season 2018-19.

Finally, Ernesto Valverde wanted to stand out the importance of the party against the Seville, to end to delete a marked date in the calendar and do it adding three new points that keep to the Barça in the highest of the classification, being able to even increase the distance with the rivals. "Hit to the League? No it escapes us that the party of morning for us is very important. It is a very hard rival in his field, that have slope and tomorrow will have left it backwards. Keep our difference or increase it in this day is important", concluded.

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