"We must protect Ansu Fati"

BARCELONA – From the storm to the calm, the win won by Barcelona over Valencia did not make a man lose his composure Ernesto Valverde He received the offensive display of his players with his usual peace of mind. Used to deal with not a few criticisms of the environment, the coach did not want, in this way, to greet the win with euphoria because "we were lucky to score two quick goals, thanks to our strong start."

But above all it was Ansu Fati the protagonist, obviously, of the press conference of the technician, who, satisfied by (Ansu Fati: A star was born), the image that the young youth showed showed that “the ball with him, already We know, it is going to be very big and we will have to protect it. ”

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“We know that assimilating being a Barça player is not easy, and more so for such a young boy,” explained Valverde, who warned that this Saturday's hatching “is not normal. It is not normal that he scores a goal in his first shot, that after you give him an assist for the second and that he is about to score a third … He must go doing all this, see that it is not easy, get used to stress … You can give a lot, but you have to go little by little. ”

Gradually, of course, the player does not seem to go, benefiting from the casualties in attack to hit the table that Valverde received with as much caution as satisfaction. "Coaches always want young players to come out to put them on, but there is always room during the season and then they must do well," he said, explaining that Ansu "has arrived, has done well and we see that, like Carles Pérez, he has things that we can do well. "

"Doing well right now is important," acknowledged the coach, although, at all, he gave the impression that the squad has a place won in the team. "We will have to protect him and know the situation he is in," he summed up, pending, as he repeated, of "protecting him" from the one ahead.

On the game, beyond the win, Valverde warned that despite the result “I have seen Valencia well. It comes from a convulsive situation and has conceded two goals just to start, but it has been redone, it has marked us and it has been in the game ”.

And, finally, he lamented "the fatality" of Umtiti's new injury, recalling that "we have Todibo and B kids who can help us."