Mundo Deportivo<\/a> carried the defender’s comments to Movistar, in which he picked out Barca’s second-half response.<\/p>\nCubarsi said: “We went into the first half lacking focus a little. They put in a great first half.”<\/p>\n
He continued: “But during the break we managed to put right the things we were not doing correctly, and we succeeded in securing the win.”<\/p>\n
What changed? The young defender pointed to one thing above all. “We had to press higher up in a better way,” he explained.<\/p>\n
“In the second half, we positioned ourselves slightly better,” he noted. “They did not feel as comfortable, while we had a greater presence in the attacking areas.”<\/p>\n
Cubarsi signed off by praising Frenkie de Jong’s work at right-back. He refused to dwell on the gap to Real Madrid and Atletico in the table. “If we produce good performances and give our utmost in every match, we will have a great season in La Liga,” he said.<\/p>\n
Barcelona sit top of La Liga on 33 points, three clear of second-placed Real Madrid and five ahead of third-placed Atletico Madrid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona’s hard-fought 2-1 win over Atletico Madrid handed the Catalan dressing room a major morale boost, as Pau…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111144,147462,1998,85,46,18617,194435,4029,105],"class_list":["post-671485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-atletico-madrid-vs-barcelona","tag-barcelona","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-laliga","tag-p-cubarsi","tag-real-madrid","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}