Xavi Hernandez appreciate Barça’s victory against Celta to the minimum “because it is important to win when you are not well, you have to appreciate the fact of adding three points knowing how to suffer and the victory of continuing to be the leader, this is a golden victory” . However, he recognized before receiving the Inter in the Champions League and visiting the real Madrid in the League Classic that “we are not in the best moment as before the break and we have to improve, three weeks ago we were flying and now we are not, but it is difficult for everyone to win because everything is very even”.
The Egarense coach stated that “we have to be self-critical” and lamented that “we have to make it 2-0 in the first half, because the first 45 minutes were good. high pressure, we submit to him One more goal would have changed everything. We didn’t play the same way in the second half. We started well and ended badly.”
Xavi believed that the drop after the break was due to “fatigue, playing every three days causes exhaustion and that is why they had their chances in the last ten minutes because Celta is a very uncomfortable team when in they have the ball. intensity and concentration in duels, teams like that can dominate you. You have to grit your teeth”.
Tactically, he declared that “they jumped with a central defender and you have to be smart, play more with Lewandowski. Now we tried to find Pedri between the lines so that he was closer to the goal and in the first half We created a danger like that because we found him.”
Asked about the invincible Ter Stegenpointed out that “Marc is at an extraordinary level. The defensive line has been good. Before saying that he is lewandowskidependency And now it is Marc dependency. then it will be Pedridependency… What matters is that everything adds up”.
About the uncalled penalty raphinhaalready commented”raphinha He told me that it was a very clear penalty, he was very upset at the break and we had to calm him down, but now he is not about the referees”.
excuse Lewandowski of his lack of chances: “He was not comfortable in the second half, like the whole team, but he helped us a lot. We have to find him more”.
He was emphatic when stating that “like in the second half we won’t beat Inter, but like in the first, yes. You have to savor the points and I’m already thinking about Inter. Classic? It is unpredictable, last year we arrived very bad and we won 0-4, we will try to compete”.
About eleven, justified the existence of frames as central “due to some inconvenience of Eric“and emphasized that Pique “This is a guarantee, an unprecedented defense has been good”.
Source: La Verdad
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