Valverde: "Except cutting him the hand to Umtiti little could do"

In words offered to the just media after the triumph against the Alavés (2-1), Ernesto Valverde was asked after the controversies of the party, especially by the hand of Samuel Umtiti in the interior of the area during the last minutes. 

"I see it with the T-shirt of my team put and always think that the hand is involuntary. I have not asked him to Umtiti, but except cutting him the hand can not do another thing. For me it is involuntary but each fan sees it from the point of view of his team. There are times that the balloon goes in and no give it to you and sometimes happens this", manifested the 'Txingurri' in press conference.

The Barça was atascado until the tie of Luis Suárez. "The football is as it is, and no only is question of talent. Also of tarpaulin and to be able to define one of these occasions that have had. They with the goal have come up and were trusted what did. Even in the second time have had arrivals of danger. There is not at all written in a party". 

"We are in a difficult point of the season, with a lot of wear"

The entrance of Sergi Roberto and Jordi Alba to the field dinamizó the party. "Always you look for to change the sign of the party if it goes you badly, or reinforce if it goes you well. As it went advancing the party, went them pushing in his area. It was missing us depth in the last metres and thought that Sergi and Jordi could it to us give. Afterwards Alcácer, with this desmarque that has, thought that it could help us. At the end we have given him the turn to the marker by the work of all. The ones of before and the ones of afterwards, no by the changes".

They asked him also by the party of Philippe Coutinho. "The players are not machines that go in in a new gear and begin to work to the first of change. I have seen him well, asking the ball. Has some determinate characteristics. The other day it played 20 minutes, today more...".

The Barça surpasses a challenge complicated

The Barça, in definite, has surpassed a challenge more in the fight by the title of LaLiga Santander 2017-18. "Definitely. We are in a difficult point of the season, with a lot of parties and a lot of wear. We come of parties of a lot of tension. We play the past Thursday and go back the one who comes. If you put a goal and puts you of face, is simpler. But if has his arguments... Have the feeling that we have surpassed an escollo important".