Ronald Koeman lamented his side's lack of fortune as they slipped to a 2-1 home defeat to Celta Vigo on Sunday night.
After a result that saw his side's faint LaLiga Santander title hopes extinguished, Koeman said the match reflected what he had seen for much of the season.
"If we speak about the first half, it is a reflection of what has happened to us in more than one game," he said.
"We played well and with opportunities and they have one attack and you head into the dressing room at 1-1 and this is very hard mentally.
"The second half wasn't so good.
"In the end, it was 2-1 to them and this always happens in moments when you don't have that luck."
He declined to comment on what this result would mean for his own future.
"I am not going to answer because I already said yesterday what I thought and I do not need to repeat myself," he said.
He went on to reiterate his desire for club captain Lionel Messi to remain at the Camp Nou this summer, especially given his importance in front of goal.
"We hope [that Messi doesn't leave] because he is still the best player in the world and he has demonstrated today that it is impossible to play without him," he said.
"He has now scored 30 goals which have given this team many points.
"It is a question for him.
"For me and the club, we hope that he continues with us because, if we don't have him, we have doubts over who will score as many goals."
D10S_LM10
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Koeman is lucky that Messi wasn't allowed to leave last August else Barcelona would have been sitting in mid table by now.
Roscmnpuz
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1 ) koeman must be replaced 2 ) sign romagnoli , haaland , garcia , aguero/depay , bring back emerson from betis 3 ) sell coutinho , pjanic , firpo , umititi , brathwaite , lenglet , roberto , neto , matheus
risdlouz
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Whilst I sympathize with the coach: the decision to rid L. Suarez ridicules his thoughts. The boy had affinity for goals. Secondly the genius to convert ball possession to multiple shots on target is gone. I would like to review official stats. I believe it's a coaching point. Thirdly the H/press has paralyzed defense. Barca has always been excellent at ball recovery and snuffing opposition goal attacks. Also coaching point. Fourth.. IMHO the Goat has to leave this year. He's been a facade to this decomposing Barca reign. Fourth : what's next? Seeing that Barca failed at prostituting herself to ESL. And la macia is a shadow of her former glory. Cross roads indeed.
Neymarcelo
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Barcelona have dropped 8 points since the dinner at Leo Messi’s house. In fact, they haven’t won a single game ever since. It looks like they 8-2 much.
pekabrstuy
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Most of the times am very much disappointed with Koeman on his substitutions he made. like on the last game he preferred sub off Dembele instead of Grizman. Dembele was giving a lot of pressure in front, he was trying to create something up there, good closes that he made which resulted in no one to convert them into goals. And then Koeman knew that in defence we have a lot of problems he decides to put just three defenders instead of four of them. Another mistake on the right wing he puts Grizman in front of Dembele which resulted in fighting for the one position, it was like two people on one position. This guy in the name of Koeman killed the game. Just my opinion.
CoolBlizeSurge
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THIS IS BARCA's WHOLE SEASON UNDER KOEMAN👇👇👇
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Imagine selling Suarez for free and then him ending up making a shit ton of money for atletico by winning la liga for the