«We have the opportunity to connect to LaLiga. It becomes the most important game of the season. The team has all the enthusiasm in the world to do it, we have to put pressure on the leader. “If you win, you get within five points and that is the scenario we would like,” said Xavi this Saturday at the press conference prior to his team’s match against Real Madrid. The Terrasa coach is aware that, after being eliminated in the Champions League at the hands of PSG, he has no choice but to win at the Santiago Bernabéu to stay alive in some competition this season.
To do this, his team will have to overcome the emotional shock of the four goals they received from PSG at the Lluis Companys. «We have to change the chip. We have to ensure that the anger, frustration and helplessness of the other day turns in our favor because we will have a strong and morally reinforced Real Madrid in front of us after this Champions League week,” said Xavi, while downplaying the incident generated by Ilkay Gündogan and Ronald Araujo. «It’s solved. I no longer saw a problem but by talking people understand each other and it has been solved,” he stated.
This change of chip will be fundamental against a rival that arrives in the opposite dynamic. Real Madrid survived the Etihad and Xavi analyzed the match that the whites played against Guardiola’s team. «He had to defend himself because he was in front of the best team in the world. It’s not that you want to, it’s that your rival submits to you. He defended himself very well, to be honest, and it is also legal. These are game situations that must be mastered and Madrid does compete well in that,” he stated.
At the Bernabéu there will be several factors to take into account. A very important one is the physicality after the two played in the Champions League and the whites also had to play a demanding extra time. «It’s more to take into account for them. We arrived well and we are prepared to win, but in this type of match fatigue does not affect too much,” said Xavi, who also added that “Madrid will push in the first minutes” and that “it will be a perfect setting to show personality.”
2024-04-20 12:04:23
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