23.11.2008 21:55
Guardiola: “We just didn’t have that final finish”
Vanessa Forns
After the one all draw with Getafe, Pep Guardiola said he was pleased with the way his team had played. He thinks they dominated the game and is only disappointed by a lack of “precise finishing”.
Thanks to a Keita header in the 71st minute, Barça got a point out of their match with Getafe. Once
again Josep Guardiola was full of praise for his players. “Overall I think we dominated the
game and I’m happy with how it went,” he commented. “In general we played
well.”
Happy with the team
Despite not winning the match, Guardiola said he was happy overall with how the team played.
“Maybe we rushed things a bit in the last third and we didn’t quite get the final pass
or cross right,” he said. “But we dominated the game, especially in the second
half.”
Praise for Getafe
The Barça manager was full of praise for this
evening’s opponents. “Getafe are a good team with excellent players,” he said,
before adding that the side managed by Víctor Muñoz had played “extremely well” at Camp
Nou.
Bojan’s performance
Bojan Krkic was in the starting XI again this Sunday. “I have to give him whatever he
needs to grow as a footballer, and I’m convinced he’ll do that,” explained
Guardiola. “He finds it a bit harder where he played but he’s always making a
contribution and you have to keep pushing him so that he can do his very best. I’ll check
tomorrow to see if he’s feeling a bit down, which I doubt, but if he is we’ll try to
help him.”
Next up Sporting Lisbon
When asked about whether the team had missed Messi, Guardiola said that “Messi is a
necessary player, a special player, a very good player, but I’ve got others. I can only talk
about the game and the people who played in it as anything else would be pure speculation”.
The Barça coach is already turning his thoughts to Wednesday’s Champions League clash in
Portugal against Sporting Lisbon: “Now we need to rest a bit and get ready for
Wednesday’s game to try to secure top spot in the group”.