{"id":727,"date":"2025-02-26T20:29:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/?p=727"},"modified":"2025-02-26T20:29:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:29:50","slug":"we-should-have-kept-the-defensive-line-deeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/we-should-have-kept-the-defensive-line-deeper\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We should have kept the defensive line deeper&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-44.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-44.png 1000w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-44-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-44-768x445.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pedri, one of Barcelona&#8217;s best players in the 4-4 draw against Atletico, could not contain himself and expressed his dissatisfaction at conceding two goals that could determine the tie. Even more so with the return leg at the Metropolitano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barcelona midfielder Pedri regretted that his team let a two-goal lead slip away on Tuesday in the first leg of the Copa del Rey semifinals against Atletico Madrid (4-2), and recalled that something similar already happened to them in the last visit of the colchoneros in La Liga EA Sports in December (1-2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s not the worst result, but when you&#8217;re 4-2 up, it&#8217;s complicated to leave with a draw. It already happened to us in La Liga that in the last few minutes we threw it away and we&#8217;re doing it again. We have to learn from these things, especially having the ball more and keeping the defensive line deeper in the last minutes\u201d, summarised the Spanish midfielder in declarations to &#8216;Teledeporte&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the pitch of the Estadi Ol\u00edmpic Llu\u00eds Companys, Pedri analysed that the match started \u201cwith a hard blow\u201d for the Catalan team, who conceded two goals in six minutes, but praised \u201chow the team reacted\u201d, although he insisted that when they came back from behind they lacked \u201cmore calm with the ball\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI feel important in the team, that&#8217;s what the coach tells me, but I prefer the team to win and talk about the team,\u201d added the Spanish international, who said he has full confidence in the team for the second leg at the Metropolitano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.besoccer.com\/match\/barcelona\/atletico-madrid\/2025266066\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedri, one of Barcelona&#8217;s best players in the 4-4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}