Pedri slams 'dreadful' first half in Barça defeat

Midfielder Pedri slammed a "dreadful" archetypal fractional arsenic Barcelona suffered their archetypal decision of the LaLiga play connected Sunday, losing 4-1 to Sevilla astatine the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán.

A punishment from seasoned Alexis Sánchez against his erstwhile broadside and a onslaught from Isaac Romero helped Sevilla into a two-goal pb wrong 37 minutes, but Marcus Rashford pulled 1 backmost with a volley conscionable earlier the break.

Robert Lewandowski missed a punishment successful the 2nd fractional to level, earlier precocious goals from José Ángel Carmona and Akor Adams inflicted back-to-back defeats connected Barça for the archetypal clip since December 2024 aft the midweek reverse against Paris Saint-Germain.

"The archetypal fractional was dreadful," Pedri told Barça One aft the game. "I don't deliberation we've played arsenic severely arsenic we did today. We person to beryllium honorable with ourselves and beryllium self-critical.

"There was nary strength oregon prime with the shot successful the archetypal half. We didn't cognize however to play done their press. We didn't cognize what to bash with the ball.

"We person to amended a batch of things. The manager [Hansi Flick] and us, the players, volition enactment hard to amended them aft the interruption truthful that this doesn't hap again."

The decision sees Barça, who were without Lamine Yamal and Raphinha successful Seville, gaffe to 2nd successful the LaLiga table, down Real Madrid who bushed Villarreal connected Saturday.

Despite suffering a 2nd nonaccomplishment successful each competitions successful a week, Flick refused to beryllium excessively downbeat, alternatively praising the side's absorption successful the 2nd half.

As good arsenic Lewandowski's miss from the punishment spot, substitute Roony Bardghji besides squandered 2 bully chances, portion Eric García had a header saved from a corner.

"The archetypal fractional was not bully for us," the Barça manager said successful a quality conference. "They played 1 against 1 against america and they were precise assertive truthful we had nary solution to play out.

"It was truly not good. But successful the 2nd fractional the absorption was good. I admit a batch what we did, however we played and it was truly bully to see."

As good arsenic Yamal and Raphinha, Barça were besides missing Marc-André ter Stegen, Joan García, Gavi and Fermín L&...