You have to go back 19 years to see two defeats in a row for Barça at the Camp Nou. The culé team resigned last Thursday from the Europa League with one more defeat than painful against Eintracht Frankfurt having their own field against. This Monday, the azulgrana consummated their capitulation in the League options staying 15 points of Real Madrid with one game less, although there are only six days left in the competition.
The defeat against Cádiz once again brought out the shame of a Barcelona that will end the season in white and that he has not finished starting with Xavi Hernández. The team once again suffered from a very fragile defense with Eric García and Lenglet not being at the level that the Barça shirt demands. If we add to that the fact that Pedri was not present due to injury and that Xavi was given a coaching attack by sitting his main scorer, Aubameyang, on the bench, things couldn’t have turned out worse for Barça’s interests.
Xavi has already accumulated 30 games at the head of the culé machinery and the data does not lie. He has barely won 53% of the matches, being the coach with the worst Barça winning percentage in the 21st century, only surpassed by Charly Rexach in 2002. The former Al-Saad coach does not surpass his predecessor Ronald Koeman, who achieved 58 % of wins as Barça coach.
The data does not end there because Xavi presents worse numbers than Quique Setién who achieved 64% of wins in his brief stage as a culé. Ernesto Valverde, the Cantabrian’s predecessor, reached 67% in his three years as Barça coach, while Luis Enrique He achieved victory in 76% of his matches. The data reveals a speech rather than results that, with the exception of the 0-4 in the Clásico, have been disappointing.
Because let’s not forget that Barcelona was already out of the Champions League with Xavi in charge and not being able to go from a tie to zero at the Camp Nou against Benfica. Nor were they able to measure up in a Super Cup where they lost to Real Madrid or in the King’s bid where they were left prematurely at the hands of Athletic Bilbao. The balance is very negative and requires reforms in a team that must be built on Pedri, Gavi and Ansu Fati.
Laporta knows that he has a lot of work ahead of him and that it’s not enough just to bring in Xavi to please the public. No visible results this team must focus on finishing within the Champions League positions before the imminent threat of Betis in the table. The people of Seville dream of throwing out one of the ‘greats’ of the top European competition and they are barely three points away from the prize. The Xavineta is in trouble. We’ll see if the season doesn’t end in total disaster.