The coach once again claimed the importance of winning LaLiga to continue growing
“I already said that we are a young team, we will mature based on chestnuts,” he said.
A few days after the bump against Madrid, Xavi insists on the need to turn the page, although he remembers that Barça is in a process. “I already said that we are a very young team. We have to mature based on chestnuts. We have to be more effective, make fewer individual errors. We are competing very well this year. We have lacked some maturity against the greats but we are focused on the Girona”, he recalled.
Barça will leave Madrid at 15 points if they beat Girona this Monday at the Camp Nou. A blow that can be definitive to LaLiga. A huge gap against a Madrid capable of winning 0-4 at the Camp Nou in the Cup, and a few days later, losing to Villarreal at the Bernabéu.
Xavi is clear about it: “It was already a very important game before the Madrid game but now it is more important because we can leave fifteen with thirty to play. It’s a great opportunity and we can’t miss it, we’re having an extraordinary league.”
The coach ended up somewhat annoyed by questions that he considered did not value the importance of LaLiga. On the question of how to find incentives, he was blunt: “Are we talking about winning the League, eh? I don’t understand it. Winning the League is the host”, he began by saying.
“We have won five Champions Leagues in all of history and we are required to win the Champions League. But winning the League gives you stability. I remember Zidane, after winning the Champions League, saying that the objective was to win the League. that is being done, against a very strong Real Madrid. The fact of winning a League that will be extraordinary for us is minimized”.
Xavi also referred to the team’s lack of consistency in the face of adversity. How the team sometimes fails to recover when it takes a big hit from a big team. “I have commented on it, there is a lack of maturity, there are times when psychologically we have to unite, we are a young team, we are under construction and we will mature with slaps. Based on disappointments you grow but that is the way it is. We have a positive attitude and want to win the League”, he said.
Against Girona Xavi will continue without being able to count on Pedri and Dembélé, whose casualties are taking longer than expected. The coach thus justified the delay: “The sensations are not good, it’s about sensations and they were excited to participate but we don’t want to take any risks. Their sensations will mark their return.”
Barça wants to deliver the final blow to LaLiga this Monday but Xavi knows that more will be asked of him. That if LaLiga is won, it will be necessary to take a step forward in Europe.
The technician asks for time. “We need more time. If we didn’t win titles during this time, there wouldn’t be time. We won the Super Cup, we competed until the semifinal in the Cup, we are facing the League… it’s true that we haven’t done a good job in Europe, we’re still under construction , when we carry two or three years with these players we will no longer be under construction, but in this way it is necessary to win”, remembered.