The Barça coach played 50 matches with the worst balance as a Barça coach in 20 years
Xavi Hernandez will take time to forget what a terrifying week has been for Barcelona. The Catalan coach has watched in just four days Inter Milan keep him on the ropes in the Champions League and Real Madrid take the lead from him in a classic in which his team was unable to react again against a direct rival. It’s the worst moment since he returned to Barcelona, low hours for a project that never got off the ground.
“The feeling is that we’re in a negative dynamic where nothing comes out of us. We have to play much better, be more mature and be competitive,” said Xavi in a press conference where all were serious faces. worst enemy two years later, to see the new project falter on the first change, in the month of October.
And it is that the sensations Barca have left in four days have buried all the positives that had happened in the string of seven consecutive victories in the League. The culés have again fallen against teams that should be direct rivals to compete for the titles. Against Inter, Xavi’s men got into the game, but as the minutes wore on they were unable to cut the rotations of the game, sleep the game and let it play what the Catalans were most interested in. That same feeling was carried over to a classic where the whites never felt their rival’s fangs and where Xavi’s men were once again too weak on defense when Madrid decided to attack.
To make matters worse, Xavi was one of the big players in the match against Madrid. Egar’s coach once again insisted on that model of infinite possessions and pressure after loss, a style made suicidal by the whites’ ease of getting out of those ambushes and the lack of speed of some footballers in the withdrawal that the coach himself had. drawn up from Tarrasa. Sergio Busquets reappeared in the picture because he couldn’t stop Toni Kroos in the first goal, both wing backs, two bets from Xavi, -Sergi Roberto and Balde- were not up to the task and his insistence on the starting wingers made the changes from Ferran Torres and Ansu Fati arrived late.
“Xavi stay” or “to the Europa League” are some of the chants Xavi had to listen to this Sunday in a Santiago Bernabéu that took advantage of the wave to take its toll on one of the white fans’ fiercest enemies. And it is that the madridista feud knows that it is a very delicate moment in Can Barça and that the difference between the two teams at the moment is terrible.
The proof of this is the numbers. Since landing at Camp Nou in November 2021, Xavi has played a total of 50 matches, with a record of 28 wins, 11 draws and 11 defeats. His grades are worse than any of the coaches the culé club has had in the past twenty years. Since Carles Rexach, in the 2001-2002 academic year, no one has had a worse record than the current coach of the Barça team.
Since then, Frank Rijkaard, who had a hesitant start recording 28 wins, 12 draws and 10 defeats, Pep Guardiola (37-8-5), Tito Vilanova (36-8-6), Gerardo Martino (37-8 – 5), Luis Enrique (42-3-5), Ernesto Valverde (36-11-3) and finally Ronald Koeman, who also beats Tarrasa with 33 wins, seven draws and ten losses.
Xavi’s poor track record is even worse when extrapolated to the Champions League. He led the Barça team in six games and, with two draws and three defeats, barely managed a win – which he won against Viktoria Pilsen this season. These figures are also worse than those of its predecessors. Carles Rexach had achieved five, Antic three, Rijkaard three, Guardiola four, Vilanova four, Martino four, Luis Enrique five, Valverde four and Koeman five. No one in this century has had worse grades than Xavi, although, yes, most were lucky enough to have Leo Messi in their ranks.
Source: La Verdad
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