FC Barcelona coach Xavi Hernández considers that “gunayar Madrid would be an important turning point”, in the press conference prior to the classic semi-finals of the Spanish Super Cup that will be played this Wednesday at King Fahd International Riyadh Stadium (Saudi Arabia).
“It’s a challenge for us to reach the final, it’s a title and we’re very motivated. It can be an important turning point for us. The credibility that would give the project to win a game like this is tremendous,” he added. In this sense, the Barça coach.
Xavi is clear about his team’s approach: “We will try to control the game, take the initiative, impose our personality and play our game. Surely, now Real Madrid is the strongest team in Spain, but it’s another competition and you never know what might happen regardless of the points difference. ”
For the classic, Barça will recover important players such as Ansu Fati, Ronald araujo i Pedro González ‘Pedri‘, and will be able to count on Ferran Torres. The last two traveled to Riyadh on Tuesday after being tested negative for coronavirus on Monday.
“It’s great news for us to have them at our disposal. Ferran’s registration seems to be done soon. We have to dose them all and at certain moments in the game we can take advantage of them,” he announced. Xavi.
“Tomorrow Ansu and Ferran will probably have minutes, but we will have to see how far they can go,” he added.
In any case, he made it clear that in this sense one cannot think only of “tomorrow’s game because there are still five months of competition left, you have to be ready and know how to dose them”.
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