“I have made a mistake as a coach on the motivational issue”

“I have made a mistake as a coach, especially on the motivational issue. I have not found the key to motivate the players enough. I think I have given everything, but the players did not come out with the momentum of the second half” .

Xavi Hernandez It has been resounding after chaining the third consecutive defeat at home: Eintracht, Cádiz and Rayo. And that his team was warned, unable to correct it, lamenting “the lack of effectiveness” of Barça. “We got ourselves into the mess, we got into the problem,” he acknowledged.

“We haven’t played well and that’s why we haven’t won. That happens at Barça, it’s normal when you don’t play well you end up not winning and it doesn’t happen to us like other teams. If we’re not playing well, we don’t win. History he says,” said the Barça coach, hurt because his team “has made life difficult for itself”.

The coach has demanded character from his players to get out of the pothole they have plunged into. “Now we have spoken with the team, we have to use all five senses. We are going to enter the Champions League, it is time to see the coach and the players, it is time to be united and take a step forward”; Xavi said.

“Everything is very nice when you win 0-4, but right now is when you see the people, the players, the coach. It’s my fault, I’m the one in charge, but we have to move this forward no matter what. We’re in a very difficult stage, I understand, admit and tolerate criticism”, Xavi demanded.

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“We have talked about it and seen it on video, but we haven’t entered with the desire and impetus that was needed in the first half. We had talked about it and it has happened again”, said Xavi, hurt “because we are talking about the same thing again , we must be self-critical and it cannot happen again”.

“We have to wake up, we are clear about what has to be done and something else can be done. We have to modernize many things in the team and balance them”, stressed Jordi Cruyff, a member of the Barça club’s technical secretariat on the immediate future in party planning.

“They take advantage of their chance, we didn’t,” he said. Xavi, claiming “more effectiveness since in the first part we were not good”. Therefore, it was his complaint without wanting to take refuge in the alibi of European elimination.

“There are games that get complicated because we don’t go in as we should at the start. No, we lack personality, we need to go into games better”, insisted the Barça coach, acknowledging that “there are emergencies at the club, sports emergencies and economic emergencies” , without stopping to think how badly his team went in the duel with Rayo.

“We cannot afford those starts, they may have more urgencies to save the category, but we must match them”, stressed the Barça coach, assuming that he is going home “angry, annoyed, pissed off, disappointed & mldr; He has missed a golden opportunity and it’s our fault because you get into trouble”.

And Xavi also left another reflection to censor the performance of his players. “The team is not knowing how to live up to the Camp Nou fans. The public is giving everything to try to be in the Champions League, they are back to 10”. The fans, yes; the players don’t. Hence, the coach insisted on a message full of demands in the five games that remain before the end of the League. “It would be a failure to let go in this season finale.”