Manajan Liverpool, Andoni Iraola, ya yi kokarin kwantar da damuwa game da Bradley Barcola, yana tabbatar da cewa ɗan wasan fikafikan ya sha wahalar kurjewa kawai — ba raunin tsoka mai tsanani ba — yayin nasarar 2-1 ta kulob din a kan Atlético Madrid a UEFA Champions League.

Barcola ya fadi yana kama tsokarta hannun hagu a minti na 60 na wasan farko da ya fara cikakke tare da Liverpool, wanda ya haifar da damuwa nan da nan a tsakanin magoya baya da masu kallo.

Ana kula da lafiyarsa da hankali

Yayin da yake magana da TNT Sports bayan wasan, Iraola ya bayyana cewa Barcola bai buga wasu mintoci na pre-season ba tare da Paris Saint-Germain kafin ya kammala canjinsa na £123 miliyan zuwa Liverpool, wanda ke nufin ma'aikatan horarwa suna kimanta yanayin tsayin daka nasa a wasanni.

«Muna gaggauta shi kaɗan,» Iraola ya yarda. «Mun so shi can, amma a ƙarshe mun yanke shawarar cewa ka ba mu abin da kake da shi — to shine mafi yawa da yake da shi. Bari mu ga yadda suka warke don na gaba.»

Tasirin Barcola ya burge Iraola

Duk da ficewansa da wuri, Iraola ya bayyana fara'a da abin da Barcola ya bayar. Ɗan wasan fikafikan na Faransa ya nuna hatsari a duk tsawon lokacinsa a filin wasa kuma ya ƙirƙiri damarori biyu masu fili a kan mai tsaron gidan Atlético, Jan Oblak.

Iraola ya kuma yi tunani game da ƙalubalen fuskantar ƙungiyar Diego Simeone, yana mai bayyana su a matsayin ƙwararru ta fasaha a tsakiyar filin wasa kuma da wahala a matsa musu. Ya nuna alƙaluma yanzu da aka sani na Liverpool ta samu dawowa — kamar yadda suka yi a kan Nottingham Forest da Newcastle — tare da yarda cewa akwai abubuwan da ake bukata a gyara a farkon wasanni.

«Ina jin daɗin wasan. Su ƙungiya ce mai kyau sosai. Ta fuskar fasaha, a tsakiya, ƴan wasa masu kyau. Ba sauƙi a matsa musu domin suna da inganci,» in ji Iraola. «Sun kasance suna wasa tare tun daɗi.»

«Wannan ita ce Champions League — ba ka da sauƙin wasanni,» ya ƙara, yana bayyana gamsuwa da ɗabi'ar da ƙungiyarsa ta nuna wajen tabbatar da maki uku.