Barcelona head coach Ronald Koeman declared \u201cit\u2019s all positive\u201d after a second friendly win in succession was secured and new addition Memphis Depay netted on debut.
\nGoals from Gerard Pique, Rey Manaj and Depay \u2013 the Netherlands forward smashed in a penalty \u2013 earned Saturday\u2019s 3-1 pre-season triumph against Segunda Division\u2019s Girona. This followed\u00a0Wednesday’s opening\u00a04-0 victory versus 10-man Gimnastic.
\n\u201cI think the game has had more rhythm, also our opponent, Girona, is a good team that tries to play and it was a good game for preseason,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cThere was rhythm, a lot of play on both sides and I\u2019m happy to have added more minutes and the players who have joined the most recently have played. It\u2019s all positive.\u201d
\nHe added: \u201cDepay has played more minutes than expected but he is a high quality player, he has shown it at certain moments of the game and it is important because in the attacking positions you have to have competition and this is very good.\u201d
\nBarca \u2013 who finished third in La Liga \u2013 next play Stuttgart on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Barcelona head coach Ronald Koeman declared \u201cit\u2019s all positive\u201d after a second friendly win in succession was secured and new addition Memphis Depay netted on debut.
\nGoals from Gerard Pique, Rey Manaj and Depay \u2013 the Netherlands forward smashed in a penalty \u2013 earned Saturday\u2019s 3-1 pre-season triumph against Segunda Division\u2019s Girona. This followed\u00a0Wednesday\u2019s opening\u00a04-0 victory versus 10-man Gimnastic.
\n\u201cI think the game has had more rhythm, also our opponent, Girona, is a good team that tries to play and it was a good game for preseason,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cThere was rhythm, a lot of play on both sides and I\u2019m happy to have added more minutes and the players who have joined the most recently have played. It\u2019s all positive.\u201d
\nHe added: \u201cDepay has played more minutes than expected but he is a high quality player, he has shown it at certain moments of the game and it is important because in the attacking positions you have to have competition and this is very good.\u201d
\nBarca \u2013 who finished third in La Liga \u2013 next play Stuttgart on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105278,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105277\/revisions\/105278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}