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Fans of Spanish giants Barcelona have taken to social media on Sunday evening, to reveal their frustrations with defender Eric Garcia.
Xavi Hernandez’s troops, of course, were back in action a short time ago.
On the back of a morale-boosting downing of Atletico Madrid last time out, the Blaugrana made the trip to the RCDE Stadium for a derby showdown with Espanyol, hopeful of making it back-to-back three-point hauls amid the club’s pursuit of a top-4 berth.
When all was said and done in Cornella, however, Barca were ultimately forced to settle for a share of the spoils. And even that only came courtesy of a last-gasp equaliser.
After Pedri’s opener inside two minutes was cancelled out in style by Sergi Darder just shy of the interval, Espanyol turned the clash firmly on its head just past the hour mark, courtesy of star man Raul de Tomas:
Espanyol lead in the Barcelona Derby thanks to RDT!
Raúl de Tomás keeps his composure for a massive goal pic.twitter.com/S4uUB1rSB1
— Premier Sports (@PremierSportsTV) February 13, 2022
Just when it appeared as though the hosts were on course for all three points, however, Luuk de Jong emerged from the bench to nod home an equaliser with a full six minutes of injury time on the clock, ensuring that the Derbi Barceloni spoils were shared.
Luuk de Jong equalises AT THE DEATH!
Barca break Espanyol hearts late on in a thrilling derby pic.twitter.com/1bjM0t0hPZ
— Premier Sports (@PremierSportsTV) February 13, 2022
‘Not good enough’
Despite their side snatching a point from the jaws of defeat at the death on Sunday night, however, as alluded to above, many of a Barcelona persuasion are unsurprisingly none too pleased on the back of the full-time whistle in Cornella.
This comes amid the widespread agreement that the club’s display simply wasn’t up to scratch, owing to a host of sub-par individual performances.
And one player to have been singled out for particularly heavy criticism comes in the form of Eric Garcia, who, after being introduced at the interval, endured a 45-minute cameo to forget…
Eric Garcia is a very bad Defender
— Tar (@Akhtar188) February 13, 2022
Garcia should never see the pitch again. End of story.
— TheFCBArmy (@FCBArmy1) February 13, 2022
This Garcia is our Maguire. No wonder Pep easily released him to barca
See how Man city fans are happy they got rid of him— Yasir Adam (@YaseerikoAdam) February 13, 2022
Eric Garcia is actually the worst CB in La Liga and I’m not remotely joking
— Nico (@httpnicdotcom) February 13, 2022
Any defender, literally anyone would be better than Eric Garcia!
— Sanjog K Handique (@YogiSanjog) February 13, 2022
It’s high time Barcelona stop pampering those Catalonia boys . Player like Eric Garcia shouldn’t be a defender of this team . He’s a joke and has nothing to offer us .
— Steeze (@__Steeze1) February 13, 2022
I blame Garcia for this L
— ☥ ⁷ (@eggwhol) February 13, 2022
Eric Garcia is so bad, we shouldn’t even have him as a bench cb
— Messi FC Global (@messifcglobal) February 13, 2022
I don’t want to see Garcia in this team again.
Man is a disaster— COEUS(WOLFCON)⚓ (@d_sapiophile) February 13, 2022
If I say what I feel about Eric Garcia my account will be suspended.
He is not good enough for Barcelona, please.
— Black President. (@KhoB_ee) February 13, 2022
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