He Barcelona midfielder He is very powerful mentally, he is not affected by criticism and he never looks for excuses either.
When I was in Southampton, Hughes he stopped playing it for two games and Oriol Romeu He asked the coach to play with the reserve team
Girona’s visit to Montjuïc, a team in which Oriol Romeu played at a very high level last season, coincides with a stage in which the man from Ulldecona has been relegated to the substitution after counting, and a lot, for Xavi Hernández, especially as a result of Frenkie de Jong’s injury.
Obviously, every footballer wants to play and be a protagonist and Oriol Romeu is no exception, but if something characterizes the midfielder it is his mental strength. Both in good and bad times.
Oriol Romeu is a hard worker in football, he has managed to fulfill the dream of playing for Barça coming from the bottom and he has always had a very professional way of looking at things, without believing himself better than anyone when, not so long ago, everything was praise , nor now collapse due to the criticisms, some of them overstated.
Two bad games
It is true that Ulldecona’s player has had a couple of bad games and a couple of specific actions in which, as they say, he ‘came out in the photo’, as it is also true that it was providential for the Barça midfield when He was needed more and he put together some matches with a very high performance.
Oriol Romeu celebrates a Barça goal with Fermín
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Oriol Romeu does not look at the criticism, so it does not affect him, and he does not look for excuses, he never has. If he is not getting as many minutes as before it is because He believes that he should do better and continue working. He is calm and his only focus is to follow his path and wait for his time to come again and be ready for when he is needed.
It is precisely his way of being that has brought him to Barça after many years of work. Therefore, he does not get upset when faced with strange campaigns, but those around him have been surprised that one can doubt precisely his mental strength and the crudeness of some information. Oriol Romeu had to play practically without respite when Frenkie de Jong was injured and adapt to other roles willingly.
The anecdote with Hughes
As the substitution takes place at the moment, without complaining. You just have to remember a chapter that he lived when he was in the Southampton and which he explains in his book, ‘The season of my life’. He played almost all the games as a starter when the coach, Mark Hughes, he stopped playing for two games. The man from Ulldecona went to talk to him and not to reproach him for anything, but to ask him to be able to play with the reserve team – in English football it is allowed – and in this way, not lose the competitive rhythm.
This is Oriol Romeu, who hopes to have minutes against a Girona team in which he left his mark, and in this case, to meet on the pitch with his close friend, also from Ulldecona, Aleix Garcia.