Xavi went out to the Barcelona players and told them one sentence. Total change

with the advantage of one player for almost half an hour, after a red card for Jules Kounde, they only drew 1-1 in the last game of La Liga in 2021. A win would allow the Catalan team to jump to fourth place in the table. Due to the lack of a set of points, the team led by the team headed for Christmas in not the best mood, ending the year only seventh in the table.

“AS” reports that Barcelona coach Xavi was very badly affected by the draw. After returning to Catalonia, he was unable to sleep until eight in the morning. “Xavi Hernandez left Sanchez Pizjuan with conflicting feelings: proud of the team’s image, but depressed because he missed the opportunity to end the year in the Champions League zone,” we read in the journal.

The coach identifies very much with Barcelona and is very concerned that the club under his leadership makes progress all the time. This is evidenced by the reactions of Xavi at the press conference, when he mentioned that he was going to have a very hard night. What’s more, the day before the match, the coach had a cold and for this purpose he underwent a coronavirus test. His result was negative.

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Xavi’s long night after the game against Sevilla. “You brought back the pride of the fans”

Later, before boarding the plane and returning to Barcelona, ​​Xavi congratulated his players. “You brought back pride to the fans, which is priceless,” he said, but on the other hand, he felt unsatisfied that despite their advantage, Barcelona did not score three points with Sevilla.

Then, on the way back to Barcelona, ​​the coach, along with President Joan Laporta and football director Mateu Aleman, analyzed Barcelona’s form and wondered what needed to change in January for the quality of the team to improve. “At three in the morning, they landed at the El Prat airport, then went to the club’s training center, Ciutat Esportiva, to drive home from there in their cars,” AS continues.

However, this was not the end of Xavi’s work. According to reports, shortly after returning home at four in the morning, the coach decided to watch the entire match of Barcelona vs Sevilla once again. “After seeing him again, his suspicions were confirmed that Barcelona was much better than Sevilla and that the team improved in particular in terms of performance and understanding of positional play,” the journal reads. By the time Xavi finished watching the game, it was already before eight in the morning.

This is a complete change in the attitude that Xavi had until recently after Barcelona’s painful defeat in Munich against Bayern, which marked a farewell to the Champions League. At that time, the coach of the team from Camp Nou.

Koeman took more time than Xavi who, after just five weeks, realized how bad the situation Barcelona was. Meanwhile, Xavi participated in creating false expectations. These expectations were related to the history of Barca, but in fact it was only an arrogant escape from the troubles that plague the club – wrote the daily “Marc” recently, pointing out that “the club’s DNA is out of date”. Now it looks like Xavi is trying to get to the heads of the players from the match after the match, as they are starting to understand better and better what he expects from them.

FC Barcelona will play another game in La Liga on January 2. He will then face Mallorca away.