Neymar has said the nearly telepathic understanding between him, Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez is the reason for their devastating relationship on the field for Barcelona.
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Brown said: “Here’s hoping this is the worst result for Inverness because we now need to bounce back as quickly as possible”.
The Argentine forward only took three minutes into the game to smash in a goal against the Scottish visitors – the first in a series of bangers that highlighted the Catalan club’s supremacy in the European stage.
He told broadcasting media: “Everyone in that changing room was disappointed”.
He added: “It’s a heavy defeat”.
“But we didn’t panic, overall we were resilient enough and resilience is linked with experience”. But we should do better than that.
“There can be no embarrassment because they do that to much better teams than ourselves”, he said, per BBC Sport. “The players are rested and desperate to compete and play again in the Camp Nou in a competition that excites us”.
“No team likes to lose like that but this won’t hamper us in any way”.
Brendan Rodgers said that Barcelona “beat you up with the ball” on a night which he likened the Camp Nou pitch to an ice-rink, the game whizzing past his helpless players.
“It’s always going to be really, really tough in your next game to probably the best possession team in the world”.
“But we need to defend better from the front middle and back, be more compact and courageous on the ball and even here we usually do better than that”.
“We’ve got to be a lot more compact and braver on the ball as well”.
The second half was something of a procession, with a Neymar free-kick making it three and leaving goalkeeper Dorus de Vries asking if he could have done more to keep a relatively central curler out. We’ve not managed to create anything, we’ve not managed to get in their half really, get a throw-in or anything. Instead that came two minutes from the end when he poked in from close range from Messi’s pass. It’s not like us, even coming here we usually do better than that.
“They are special players”.
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Celtic striker Moussa Dembele, who had scored a hat-trick in the 5-1 win over Rangers at the weekend, had a penalty saved by Marc-Andre ter Stegen when the home side led by only one goal. “I thought in the first period of the game our set-up and organisation was good. I’m very pleased. We’re able to compete for the title, but our first goal is to win the group”.
