Frenkie de Jong, focused on the Dutch national team, spoke to the Netherlands media about the situation of the FC Barcelona and his own. The midfielder said that “it is exaggerated a lot, we are not in the hole” and regarding his performance he sent a message of improvement with nuances. “I expect more of myself, that’s true, but I’m just not the type of player to score 30 goals in a season, I don’t even know a midfielder who does. I don’t think he’s a player you should judge after one season. season for goals and assists, “he reflected.
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From his contribution he hopes to have more weight in the game. “Look, I have to carry more to the team, in fact I can do more in that. And that figure of zero goals and two assists, that could be better,” he admitted.
He gave as an example of the footballer’s profile that is considered a play during the Benfica-Barcelona in which, after staying in front of the goalkeeper Odysseas, he passed the ball to his compatriot Luuk de Jong. “I was also able to shoot myself, but the chance that the ball would go in if you passed the ball to the side in front of the goalkeeper was higher. So I would do the same now,” he said. “If that ball had gone in, no one would say ‘Frenkie, solve those kinds of occasions yourself.’ Instead, he recalled as an opposite example another play in the same game, that Barça lost 3-0. “I headed a ball backwards looking for a spiker and I think it might have been better to head to goal myself, that’s true,” he described. He does not agree with the criticism he received from that meeting. “I think sometimes it’s exaggerated. I’m not in the best shape of my life. But I’m not bad either. After Benfica I read the criticisms of my game. If you lose 3-0, you can never say that it turned out very well, but that The result does not automatically mean that I was very bad. That criticism is often based on the bad results, “he lamented.
Regarding the global moment of Barça, Frenkie assumed that “the results are bad, nobody can ignore that. You notice that there is a negative feeling in the club. That makes sense when you have such bad results in a club like Barcelona. But I am disappointed but I’m not depressed. “
De Jong, 24, hopes to see a better overall version when club competition returns after the international team break. “It’s good that now we have a break. If we go back to Barcelona after the international matches, I think normality could return. People exaggerate when they say the season is already lost. We don’t have as many points less than Real Madrid and Atlético. And We still have thirty games to play. So nothing has been lost, at all. We started very badly in the Champions League. But we still have all the opportunities, “he said. The illusion to win with Barça is still there. “We have a very good squad, especially when the injured players are back. Those points that we have lost so far, that is not possible, but people are exaggerating enormously. In the league, everything is still possible. And we started very badly. the Champions League, but nothing has been lost there either. ”
De Jong warned that about the technician, Ronald Koeman, “There is a lot of pressure, everyone sees it.”