It was a defeat, but Emery was quite pleased and was more worried about getting minutes in action rather than the result, esecially as there was no Laca, Pepe or Iwobi in the squad, and Torreira is only just approaching fitness. The Boss said after the game: “….I am really happy with our work, with our performance. The next week we are going to start the Premier League against Newcastle and the result is going to be important. But not today. We want to create a winning mentality but the first today was to work with all the players, to start thinking how we can be better for the first match against Newcastle. We have some injuries but that is normal for every team. We played a good match here, away here in Barcelona against a good team, where every match is difficult. We had some mistakes, but it is up to us to improve that.”
Well you can see how we got in with this excellent highlights video produced by Barcelona themselves.
Enjoy!