Gerardo Martino avoids talking about Messi and Valdes... And praises the performance of Iniesta

Spanish Barcelona coach, Gerardo "Tata" Martino expressed on Wednesday satisfaction with the victory achieved by the team against Ajax Amsterdam 4-0 at home, although he expressed concern of the team's performance in the first half of the match.

Martino Said, who will travel tomorrow to his country Argentina to attend the funeral of his father, "I did not like the performance in the first half, especially in passing of the ball, but the second half was better, we were able in which control more, in total, the team performed well, but not impressive, and eventually we achieved deserved victory.”

It seemed that Martino insisted to look for alternatives for the team and not a change in his game, stating "from the years we see Barcelona play longitudinal balls in period of Rafa Marquez, we have to look for alternatives but that does not mean a change in how to play, but we will continue to search for those alternatives.”

Argentine coach Gerardo Martino said that the La Liga champions "in the second half succeeded in correcting the mistakes and play better and understand what is missing," saying this as an important step forward.

Martino did not want to in the allocation of praise for the 
Argentine Lionel Messi, who scored three goals in the game and goalkeeper Victor Valdes who saved a penalty in the game, saying "Barcelona is full of inimitable individual skills. This team is full of stars, it is natural that one of them highlights. Important that we have a team together allows those skills to emerge better. "

He stressed, "I do not think at all, even if the team has the best player in the world, that the team depends only on this player to achieve the championship title."

Gerardo Martino praised international midfielder Andres Iniesta, and refused to hand waving that the descent of Xavi Hernandez in the second half instead of Cesc Fabregas is granted Barça equilibrium appropriate to score three goals, "I liked Iniesta, but I do not want to talk too much about his performance, which improves dramatically to become the object of "he added," Xavi performed as good as Fabregas, but the team as a whole was good in the second half to happen difference.”

And Barcelona is expected to replace in the next round away to Celtic, who lost to AC Milan two straight nights.