Xavi: “In heads or tails we always get tails”

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There were no marches or apologies. “Athletic played with more intensity than us,” he admitted. Xavi Hernandez, acknowledges the superiority of the competitor in many moments of the collision. Enough to throw out Barça, the current Cup champions. The second title of the season they lose in a week, after being eliminated by Madrid in the semi-final of the Spanish Super Cup in Riyadh. “These are difficult days,” admits the coach, who noticed only one positive detail: the resistance of the players to achieve extra time thanks to the Pedro’s goal.

But he also lost Ansu Fati. First impressions were pessimistic. They affected a recurrence of his muscle fracture in the left femoral biceps that separated him shortly thereafter. reappears in the field of Dynamo Kiev. It happened on November 6 and the striker only returned last week, for the Super Cup against Madrid and scored a goal. The prospect is that it will be inactive again for almost two months.

“In heads or tails we always get tails,” Xavi lamented, somewhat confused about the lack of results from the team he leads. He made no secret of the fact that, in addition to the annoyance it seems to him, he feels surprised at the poor reaction Barça in general offers, no matter how changed and degenerate this Barça is in relation to the one he enjoyed as a footballer not.

“We have no choice but to keep working and believing in this project. I know no other way. We will finish our holes”,

Xavi Hernández / Barça Coach

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Based on this experience, while searching for explanations and solutions, you will find your appeal to professionalism. “We have no choice but to keep working and believe in this project. I know no other way. We will leave our skin“, He said.

What is left of the skin, after the scratches received by the lions. “Athletic was very good, very intense, winning second rounds and duels,” he said, referring to Barça’s physical weakness. But there was also a clear inferiority in the game.

Xavi warned of local aggression; he did not foresee that Athletic would be better with the ball. “We again have a lack of more patience and more control,” he confessed, while it should be the most important virtue. That quality was first observed in Ferran Torres’ 1-1. It was the most elaborate game of the game and of the season.

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This was what worried him most: the loss of the football match. He had no choice but to admit how obvious the defeat was. Wider than the marker. He did not want to say the word failure.

“If it’s a failure, let it serve to learn, let it learn from this defeat. We will keep trying,” Xavi promised, exhausting the team’s options in the League and in the Europa League, half of the titles it competed with Barça for when the halfway point of the season was barely over,



Reference-www.elperiodico.com

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