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The goal that Barcelona received against him Granada In the last minute it cost him two points, in addition to losing the possibility of getting into the Champions League zone, and it showed an endemic problem that grips the team: the matches are too long and it collapses in the final stretch, which causes the considerable anger by Xavi Hernández when we have the information. The technician already observed from the Balaídos box how Iago Aspas scratched a tie (3-3) in the 96th minute during the last interim match of Sergi Barjuán.
After a league start with two consecutive victories, Barcelona once again showed worrying fragility in the final minutes. The Betis took the Camp Nou (0-1) with a goal from Juanmi (min.
78) that caused Xavi’s first serious warning. «When the team was at its best, we conceded the goal. You have to stop those cons, be more tactical at times, smarter. We knew about Betis’ transitions, we had 20-25 very good minutes and it’s a shame. It is a defeat that hurts, we had a very good dynamic, but it is football », lamented the coach.
However, the first serious anger of the technician occurred a week later. If silence had invaded the locker room after the loss to him Bayern (3-0) three days before, the draw against Osasuna (2-2) generated Xavi’s first fight, who was forceful while his men listened with their heads down in the booth. The Sadar. Chimy Avila tied a game that Barcelona dominated on the scoreboard with four minutes to go and the coach accused several of his players of not understanding football and not knowing how to read the games. «We lack people with packing to control the game, “he said in the press room. And he completed the dart to heavyweights: youths and that is difficult to digest.
The coach lamented the weakness of his team, the defensive fragility and the lack of profession due to the excessive youth of the team he was lining up forced by the numerous casualties. The error could be repeated in the first League match of 2022 against the Mallorca if Ter Stegen had not miraculously stopped Jaume Costa’s shot in the extension. The luck that the German had, key in the victory, disappeared again last Saturday and Doors he scored again at the last minute. Barcelona lost their seventh point (out of 24 disputed) in the final stretch of the match since Xavi’s arrival. Youth was again the argument used by the technician to justify his discomfort. First by the expulsion of Gavi after an excessive and unnecessary entry, which left Barça with one less, and second for not having known how to maintain control to avoid the opponent’s attacks. “It’s a shame, but they are our mistakes. It is the lack of experience, the expulsion diminishes us. It is like Pamplona. We miss two very important points for us, vital ones. I do not see merits of the rival, if not our demerits. In the second part it was to control. Delivery is what minimum required. We cannot leave happy. You have to do self-criticism, “exploded the coach, forced to regain feelings against Madrid in the Super Cup.
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