After collapsiƞg in the dressing room .. a trîck from Koeman to protect the Barcelona star from boهs

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The atmosphere remains burning inside Barcelona, ​​​​the fans of the Catalan team criticize both the management, the coach and most of the team’s players after the poor performance that the Blaugrana showed against European rivals Bayern Munich in the opening matches of the Champions League group stage.

And in a good gesture from Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman, through which he tries to protect his stars from criticism, and this may be reflected in the Granada match, when Sergi Roberto sits next to him on the bench for fear of the Camp Nou whistles.

Roberto was subjected to a sharp attack by the Camp Nou fans in the Bayern Munich match in the Champions League last week, which caused his collapse in the dressing rooms and the exit of Gerard Pique to defend him in front of the media.

The newspaper “Marca” indicated that Koeman fears that Roberto will be booed again, and therefore he is considering not pushing him against Granada on Monday and replacing him with Sergio Dest in the right front.

In fact, this is not the first time that Koeman has protected his stars from boos, as he did it with Samuel Umtiti after he did not push him in the Getafe match after he was blown during the warm-up.

Barcelona fans in general do not stop criticizing their players this season, and the beginning was from the Joan Gamper Cup when they booed Antoine Griezmann, Miralem Pjanic, Jordi Alba, Roberto and Umtiti.

The booing was also repeated with Griezmann in the Getafe match, after which he made his decision to leave Barcelona and go to Atletico Madrid on loan for two years.

But with Sergi Roberto, Alba and Umtiti remaining in the Catalan giants, it seems that the fans will not stop whistling at them despite the attempts of other Barca leaders such as Pique and Sergio Busquets to urge the stands not to do so.

It is worth noting that Barcelona won two of the three matches it played this season in the Spanish League, and its fourth match with Seville was postponed indefinitely, to play with Granada, Levante, Cadiz and then Benfica during the next week only.