FC Barcelona is already in the quarterfinals of the Champions League. He achieves it again after four years of drought, reason enough for his coach, Xavi Hernández, to celebrate the victory with rage. The Catalan coach has also remembered all the criticism that he has received in the last year for the play of his team.
“There was talk at the time that we were the jester of the Champions League. Is this necessary? And of journalists who cover Barça and are from Barça. Now, with this match, what do we do with the jester of the Champions League? Now neither “We’re not going to win the Champions League, either. The pressure is on me,” he said at a press conference, very upset with some of the media.
On the other hand, Hernández was very happy with the team’s game against Naples: “We played one of the best games of the season. I am very happy, very proud of the team, of the young people and the veterans, everyone has given “an important step forward. We are among the eight best in the ‘Champions’. We have to look back at what we have had to suffer in two years in the Europa League. We are back in the quarterfinals and we have to be proud.”
“We are playing better than last year, I understand better what we play. For me this team has a lot of merit. You said that on big stages the team does not measure up and we have given it in Naples and here. The objective remains intact, I am very happy and very happy,” he said.
In addition, he thought that his players are “put too much pressure.” “This today seemed like a face to face, a ‘life or death’, an ultimatum. I told the players to calm down, that no one should die today,” he lamented.
“The players have to play without problems, to compete and show that we are a better team. I am very proud, content and happy. It is one of my best moments as a coach, we are in the quarterfinals of the Champions League and we will wait for the draw with joy and desire to pass to the semifinals. But I think there are things that are unnecessary,” he reiterated.
His decision to leave is firm
Xavi Hernández wanted to make it clear that his decision to leave has been made, regardless of the results he obtains between now and the end of the season: “Today nothing changes. If we lose today, you would say I’m homeless. Calm down, it’s “too emotional, everything. Calm down. Let’s wait for Friday’s draw for Atlético. Step by step.”
2024-03-13 08:05:01
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