“In heads or tails we always get tails”

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There were no buts or excuses. “Athletic played with more intensity than us,” he acknowledged Xavi Hernandez, admitting the superiority of the rival in many moments of the clash. Enough to throw out Barça, the current Cup champion. The second title of the season that they lose in a week, after being eliminated by Madrid in the semifinal of the Spanish Super Cup in Riyadh. “These are tough days,” admitted the coach, who only detected one positive detail: the resistance of the players to reach extra time thanks to the Pedro’s goal.

But he has also lost Ansu Fati. First impressions were pessimistic. They affected a recurrence of his muscle rupture in the left femoral biceps that separated him shortly after reappear in the field of Dynamo Kiev. It happened on November 6 and the striker did not return until last week, for the Super Cup against Madrid and scored a goal. The prospects are that it will be inactive again for almost two months.

“In heads or tails, we always get tails”, lamented Xavi, somewhat perplexed by the lack of results from the team he leads. He did not hide that in addition to the annoyance that it supposes him, he feels surprised by the weak response that Barça offers in general, no matter how changed and degenerated this Barça is with respect to the one he enjoyed as a footballer.

“We have no choice but to continue working and believing in this project. I don’t know any other way. We will work our asses off”,

Xavi Hernández / Barça Coach

Continue working

Based on this experience, while searching for explanations and finding solutions, you will appeal to professionalism. “We have no choice but to continue working and believing in this project. I don’t know any other way. We will leave our skin“, He said.

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

Xavi had warned of the local aggressiveness; he did not foresee that Athletic would be better with the ball. “We have lacked more patience and more control again,” he confessed, when that should be the main virtue. That quality was only observed in Ferran Torres’ 1-1. It was the most elaborate play of the game and of the season.

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That was what left him most worried: the loss of the football battle. He had no choice but to recognize how clear the defeat was. Wider than the marker. He didn’t want to say the word failure.

“If it is a failure, let it serve to learn, let there be learning from this defeat. We will keep trying”, guaranteed Xavi, to exhaust the team’s options in the League and in the Europa League, half of the titles for which it competed Barça when the halfway point of the season has barely passed,

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