“We have been lucky. It was the game of the three that I have been in in which we have least deserved the victory. But this is football. On Tuesday, against Benfica, we deserved to win and, in the end, we drew. And now we have won” . Xavi Hernandez, the Barcelona coach, has recognized the suffering he had in the duel with Villarreal. “It is holy water, it is three gold points because it is the first victory away from home,” commented the coach.
“No, it is not a flower issue. The second goal is a tactical issue that we had worked on,” said Xavi about Ter Stegen’s pass to Memphis, the prologue of the decisive 1-2, also taking advantage of the tremendous defensive error from Villarreal. “If there is a flower, welcome. Anything that adds up for the team is fantastic,” added the coach.
“It has cost us, it has cost us. We have to play better. We have suffered,” said Xavi. “Abde has played a great game offensively,” he said afterwards, praising the striker who had to split into defensive pitches because the individual marking of Eric García upon Very Gomez It has destroyed the Barça team. “Now there is no missing goal, there is a flower,” he said jokingly about this matter.
“The referees? I will not talk about that, I am not here to judge if they are hands. One day it can help you and another it can harm you”
Xavi, Barça coach
“It was a very rich game tactically,” Xavi said later, indicating that “football had these things” in clear reference to the fact that the good game on Tuesday in the Champions League against Benfica did not find the reward of victory. In La Cerámica, on the other hand, yes. “It is a tremendous victory, it is a very difficult field. It is a gentleman team. The referees? I will not talk about that, I am not here to judge if they are hands. One day it can help you and another day it can harm you,” he said.
“This victory is not by chance, the players have deserved it,” Xavi stressed. “And the way we are, this is holy water,” he said later, acknowledging that “in the end you have to be lucky. We dominated less than I expected, but then we found the goal with Memphis.”
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Then he acknowledged that the 1-1 has come “after a silly throw-in” that has complicated life for Barça. “We have to be honest and we have had a bit of luck. We have to improve and play better, dominate the ball more and overcome the pressure better.”
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