We’re going to have a mess, sorry, another mess, next Tuesday, when Xavi Hernandez star in the pre-match press conference Wednesday (7:00 p.m.)in Montjuicbefore him Almeria. The reason will be none other than nobody, last night, at the press conference after the tie at Mestallano journalist, friend or enemy, congratulated him on the point achieved.
That is, to the goatherd for not having congratulated him after accessing the Champions League round of 16 (which is a lie, because we did congratulate him when he actually achieved the classification, which was against the Port), Xavi will now add his anger at not receiving congratulations for taking a point from Mestalla, a match that he himself described as “authentic ending”.
And that’s where I wanted to get to. If the match against Valencia was a “real final” How is the team? How is Xavi? How is the project? How is LaLiga? As I suspect, as I sense, as I have already read, it seems that some are saying that the Valencia game is a step forward. Are my colleagues serious about me? Are we so kind, so soft, so friends, so colleagues with Xavi? Would we say the same if the team was directing it Valverde (what a great year the dream in Athletic!), Koeman either Setien?
Xavi, reinforced
decoration, a great friend of Xavi, said shortly before starting the match that Xavi was going to stay at Barça forever and ever. “What’s more, that was not the case because he did not want to.” Perhaps for this reason, Xavi named, in the conference prior to the trip to Valencia, seven times Laporta as his soul friend, five times to Deco himself as the person with whom he communicates the most of all and another four times to And you, who never stops visiting him and encouraging him. That is to say: white and in bottle. Neither Laporta, nor Deco, nor Yuste are going to kill Xavi.
Another thing is that they start to think that this is a failed year. Don’t let them see Xavi, who last night closed the worst week since he has been Barça coach for more than two years (Girona, Antwerp and Mestalla, as evidenced by this), with little skill and no solutions to improve the situation. And another thing is that, meanwhile, they have called Pere Guardiola to ask for a price Michelle.
There are already too many footballers who are starting to tell the truth. It’s no longer alone Gundogan who raises his voice. EITHER De Jong. Last night until dumb Pedri recognized that against Girona, that is, the night that Xavi told wonders about his team’s game, “we were not good”.
Putting aside the idea of playing again (someday, some month, some year) as I played Guardiola’s Barça (and Leo Messilet’s not forget), buried the manual devised by the Prophet of Goalit is evident that Xavi would sign (another) pact with the devil right now to go back to last season and win 126 games by 1-0 and 0-1, even if it was playing the little that the team has been playing lately.
look in the rearview mirror
I repeat, you cannot see, as some ballers claim, the light at the end of the tunnel, when the week has been the worst in the history of Xavi (coach). You can’t think of catching the Girona and/or to real Madridwhich continues to win despite having eight injured, some of them the best footballers in the world, when what Barça should do is look in the rearview mirror lest they get caught Athletic, Athletic, Real society either Betis.
Xavi insists that they are on the right path, but the truth is that Barça’s game is still a highway to nowhere
If after this tragic week, nothing has happened, it means that it will not happen in the remainder of the season, which is a lot. But, in that sense, there is a detail that is misleading. When the optimists say “there is a lot of League left”, they do not notice that, in fact, there is more than one lap left but, possibly, for the worse, so that the team does not raise its head and miss the Champions League train. I repeat: there is time, yes, but if you see Barça in these last three games, you think that, perhaps, in that time it can still get worse.
A joke goal
I say this because, after starting a miserable draw in one of the easiest courses in Europe, Xavi insists that “we are on the right track.” If the version of what happens is, simply, a lack of effectiveness, new criticism “because we did not go out, not just for 0-1, but for 0-2 and 0-3”, if they score a goal against us of a 35 meter high balloon, if the problems remain the same as they were weeks ago, then we are not on the right track, we are on a highway to nowhere.
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This smacks of resignation. The speech of “we are alive in all competitions” It will be valid, I suppose, for the next few months. But that should not be the analysis made by that group of cronies who govern Barça, who congratulate and hug Xavi daily without noticing any improvement in the team. The analysis should be: Girona gave us a lesson in everything, in Antwerp we made a fool of ourselves and the night we were playing in a final, against one of the four weakest teams in Spanish football, we only tied. And, on top of that, the press did not congratulate us.
Well, yes, some saw some improvement. So that later Xavi says that they are after him. When they really persecute him, when they criticize him like they criticized others, he will realize what Barça is, he thinks he knows what he has gotten himself into.