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The war between Ronald Koeman and one of Lionel Messi's best teammates at FC Barcelona explodes

Barça won against Elche, but the Dutch coach ended mad for a dispute against one of the wonderkids of the club protected by Messi.

By Fredi Roman

Barça won against Elche, but the Dutch coach ended mad for a dispute against one of the wonderkids of the club protected by Messi.
Barça won against Elche, but the Dutch coach ended mad for a dispute against one of the wonderkids of the club protected by Messi.

Ronald Koeman is still working to try to make FC Barcelona perform as he wants. The Dutch head coach didn’t have much time yet and has already received some hard criticizes for matches lost. The great objective for him now will be trying to qualify to the next round of the Champions League, when facing Paris Saint-Germain on Round of 16.

Despite Barça is not going to its best moment, they defeated Elche 2-0 on La Liga Week 19 and stand now in the third position of the local league, behind Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid. Even though the result obtained was a good one, Koeman didn’t end that happy the night as he experienced a conflict with one of his players.

Riqui Puig, to whom he is said to be estranged for various fights they had on the locker room, ruined his game. The manager gave just three minutes to play in the end of the match and the midfielder entered and scored a goal rapidly, completing a very good performance despite he had just a few times on the field.

Surprisingly, Koeman seemed not to be happy with the goal of his team, as the cameras captured the moment in which Puig scored, and he was not that happy. The wonder kid is one of the players who have Barcelona DNA inside him and Lionel Messi praised him several times, despite for Koeman he is not that good, and he wants to axe him soon.

 


Fredi Roman

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