Henry (1): "We win or lose as a team"

In an interview with Catalan sports paper Sport, Barcelona forward and French international Thierry Henry (31) talked yesterday about the start of the season.







The Liga didn't start well, the Champions League is luckily another issue. The team is having a difficult beginning of the season?
When you're playing for Barcelona, with all the expectation and even more after having won no trophies for two years, people hope to win everything. We had a great pre-season, but against Numancia we didn't play well and we paid for that. When you have a bad day in the Spanish league, you pay. Then we had the Racing Santander game. Let's say it wasn't the ideal screenplay to start the season. Tuesday we had to win, score goals and calm everybody down. And above all we had to play well, and we did. It wasn't our best game but we saw an ambitious team and that's what the people want to see.

How about the start of the season on a personal level?
I started with two good games against Wisla and a bad one againt Numancia, which caused a lot of talking in the press, too much if you ask me. We win and we lose as a team.

You feel pointed at?
I just say that you win and lose a game with eleven players. Period. On Tuesday people applauded me and after that they can talk about what they want to talk about. But there are just people who seem to forget that you win or lose as a group.

You let Eto'o take the penalty. You wanted to send a message?
No, but those are the kind of things you need to talk about after the match. Leo, Samu and I, we're all recovering many balls. We play with a lot of movement. Everybody defends and attacks. As a group. And that's how you need to play.


This was the first part of the interview. You'll read the other two parts later on this blog with Henry talking, amongst other things, about his relationship with Guardiola and his role in the team.