Maximum tension! Pedri has argued with his best friend, Barça's locker room is falling apart.

Against all odds, FC Barcelona left Sánchez-Pizjuán with a painful defeat. Flick's team arrived at the match with a squad depleted by absences, but with the hope of adding three vital points in the fight for the top spot. Pedri was seen as the great hope for the Catalans, but not even his talent was enough to prevent the collapse.

The Canary Islander, who had been having an exceptional start to the season, found himself in a difficult situation from the very first minutes. Sevilla pressed him intelligently, closing down spaces with the intensity of Mendy and Agoumé. Pedri found himself isolated, unable to connect with the forwards and without his usual fluidity in play.

Pedri explodes during Sevilla-Barça

That frustration, which had built up during much of the first half, finally erupted in the form of an argument. DAZN's cameras captured a tense moment between Pedri and Ferran Torres in the middle of the match. Both, who keep a great friendship off the field, exchanged visibly heated words after a poorly executed play.

The footage shows Pedri gesturing emphatically while Ferran Torres tries to explain himself. De Jong, just a few feet away, watches the scene closely, although he chooses not to intervene. The sequence, brief but intense, sums up the nervousness inside the Barça locker room after recent results.

The conversation didn't go any further, but the gesture didn't go unnoticed by either the cameras or the coaching staff. The emotional tension, a result of the demands and recent poor results, is starting to show between Pedri and Ferran Torres. On the bench, Hansi Flick watched the scene with a serious expression, aware that the internal atmosphere needs calm.

Pedri faces up

After the final whistle, Pedri didn't shy away from responsibility and was one of the first to speak to the media. With a serious expression, the Canary Islander admitted that the team didn't live up to what the badge demands. "We need to be self-critical; in the first half we didn't even know how to defend well," he stated to the microphones.

Barça's number 8 also wanted to send a message of unity and demand. "We need to improve many things: we lacked intensity, we didn't even know what to do with the ball, we weren't at our level," he concluded. His words sounded like a warning to a locker room that seems to be going through a delicate moment.

Barça, beyond the results, is going through a phase in which pressure and frustration are starting to take their toll. The argument between Pedri and Ferran Torres is nothing more than a reflection of that growing tension. Flick will have to restore calm and recover the collective spirit if he wants to prevent this episode from being the prelude to a bigger rift.