The Spanish press have been ruthless of their evaluation of Barcelona’s efficiency in opposition to Chelsea after Hansi Flick and Co endured a Champions League night time to neglect at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday night.
The hosts had been on the guests’ throats from moments after kick-off, with Chelsea discovering the again of the web in simply the fourth minute, solely to see their strike dominated out.
The breakthrough got here lastly within the twenty seventh minute by way of a shambolic Jules Kounde personal objective, and following the dismissal of Ronaldo Araujo after the visiting star picked up a second yellow for a slipshod problem on Marc Cucurella, Flick’s aspect appeared unable to put a glove on Enzo Maresca’s gamers.
Such was Barcelona’s capitulation that their very own media wasted no time describing them as ‘unrecognisable’, with Mundo Deportivo headline detailing how ‘a Barca removed from its stage (suffered) from a convincing KO’ and including that Chelsea might have had ‘much more’ targets.
Spanish outlet as dubbed the outing a ‘nightmare’, the place Chelsea had ‘run over’ Barcelona, just for them to ‘get into hassle’ themselves and create a ‘catastrophe’, with each newspapers lamenting the consequence fixing them to fifteenth place within the Champions League standings.
In Catalonia, Catalan outlet L’Esportiu described Barcelona as ‘tight-fisted’, stating that the membership had provided ‘a really poor model, (made) Chelsea’s job simpler, and (made) it very troublesome to complete within the high eight’.
Lamine Yamal and Co of Barcelona endured an evening to neglect as they misplaced 3-0 to Chelsea
The Spanish press dubbed the outing in London a ‘nightmare’ as they went all the way down to 10 males
‘Araujo’s unforgivable sending-off turns the second-half into an train in imcompetence for the Blaugrana,’ the entrance web page continued.
Sport was equally damning because the paper wailed ‘not like this, Barca’, additionally agreeing that the group had been ‘unrecognisable’ from the iteration that has impressed within the home league and allowed them to maintain tempo with LaLiga-topping Actual Madrid.
The entrance web page additionally pressured that Hansi Flick’s whole venture ought to be beneath scrutiny, because the group had been left ‘with out a solution’ in west London.
Contained in the newspaper’s pages, the decision was no much less depressing studying for Barcelona followers, because the outlet ran the rule over every of the gamers and doled out brutal rankings for quite a lot of stars.
In his a lot anticipated first look on English soil, Lamine Yamal was handed a mere 4 out of 10 for his efforts.
The gifted teenager was stored quiet by Cucurella throughout his toil at Stamford Bridge, and changed to ringing boos and mocking chants of ‘you are only a s*** Estevao’ from the house devoted within the stands.
As per Sport, the Spain worldwide ‘began brilliant and electrical, however light together with the remainder of the group far too rapidly.
‘Remoted and invisible for lengthy stretches. It wasn’t his day (or virtually anybody’s).’
Hansi Flick’s aspect had been ‘unrecognisable’ as Brazilian superstarlet Estevao ran them ragged
Sport cried ‘not like this, Barca’ (left), whereas Catalonia’s L’Esportiu complained that the night had been ‘an train in impotence’
Marcus Rashford, like Yamal, was handed a 4 out of 10 for his look as an alternative
Jules Kounde obtained the bottom grade for his personal objective which handed Chelsea their opener
Manchester United loanee Marcus Rashford was handed a equally blunt evaluation for his efficiency after he was introduced on at half-time.
‘He got here on with one much less participant and could not act as an agitator,’ his ranking, which additionally described him as ‘sentenced’, learn. ‘He was neither seen nor sacrificed in protection.’
‘Absent’ Robert Lewandowski, Andreas Christensen, Eric Garcia, Pau Cubarsi, and Frenkie de Jong, who was described as ‘misplaced’, had been additionally topic to the identical grade.
Araujo, who obtained his first yellow for dissent after complaining to the referee that Yamal ought to obtain a freekick, was duly handed the bottom of the rankings, a paltry three.
‘He made a mistake with the primary yellow card, which was pointless (the referee might have spared him that one too),’ his ranking learn. ‘After which he dedicated a transparent yellow card offense proper earlier than half-time.
‘The sending-off was completely comprehensible. Up till that time, his tackles had been stable.’
Kounde was additionally given a 3 for his ‘worrying efficiency;, as was ‘jinxed’ Ferran Torres for lacking his clear probability within the first-half.
The group’s highest-rated participant, Alejandro Balde, might have been ‘one of many few brilliant spots’, however he solely obtained a six out of 10.
Ronald Araujo was despatched off for a slipshod problem on Marc Cucurella which earned him a second yellow card
The Catalonian defender was a standout for the hosts main shops in Spain to query how the membership had let him get away from them
Marca had much more questions for Barcelona to reply, with their concentrate on the opposition quite than the Catalan giants.
The Spanish outlet was eager to interrogate how Participant of the Match Cucurella had been capable of slip by Barcelona’s fingers, with the 27-year-old coaching at their La Masia academy as a youth participant.
Cucurella left Catalonia in 2020 after a string of mortgage spells and 0 appearances for the senior group, and teased that he had pressured his Barcelona-supporting household to don Chelsea shirts on Tuesday night time in the event that they needed entry to his field.
However whereas Marca acknowledged that dislodging former left again Jordi Alba may need been a problem, Barcelona ‘might have discovered methods to retain management of this participant who, since leaving Barca, has excelled wherever he is performed and turn out to be probably the greatest full backs on this planet’.
Cucurella was handed an 8.5 ranking by Each day Mail Sport and praised on commentary by Wayne Rooney as ‘completely unbelievable’.
‘Most likely one of the best efficiency I’ve seen from a left again for a protracted, very long time,’ he added on Amazon Prime. ‘To do this tonight, he is a critical participant’.
And within the eyes of his supervisor Maresca, Cucurella was ‘phenomenal’.
‘Since I got here to the membership, his stage has been excessive, not solely his defending but in addition as a part of our play with the ball,’ the Italian head coach mentioned after the ultimate whistle.
‘Cucu all the time offers us a bonus, and we’re delighted with him.’
