Xavi: “We have to apologize to the fans, we failed”

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Xavi Hernandez He was very critical of the performance of his players against Almería, where the boat lost 1-0. The Barça coach criticized the first part of the culé team above all, where he said that he did not put the passion that Almería put.

Xavi He remembered the Blaugrana fans in their first response in their post-match press conference: “I’m very pissed off because we played the worst game of the season, especially in the first half. We lack circulation, intensity, rhythm. We should apologize to the fans, today we are disappointed. I didn’t understand the first part. We have to be honest, we failed. Perhaps we have noticed the fatigue and the European elimination. But if we want to win the League we have to change the chip and change a lot of things”.

harsh self-criticism

The Barcelona coach made a harsh self-criticism, in which he included himself: “You have to put in more enthusiasm, more enthusiasm, this is the perfect day not to fail. I blame the first one, it went wrong we and for that we have to apologize to the fans. You have to do the self-criticism. We have a good cushion in the League because we have done things well so far, but we have to change the chip now”.

The diagnosis of the party he made Xavi He based it on the way both teams approached the start of the match. “I can explain now because there is an Almería who puts his life at risk and put an intensity that we didn’t put, the passion that is needed. They have competed but we haven’t done it in the first part. You have to change the chip now”, he insisted.

The culé coach wanted to emphasize what he saw in the first half: “I was disappointed in the first half, not in the second because we put passion. The first part was the worst of this season where we cannot fail”.

yellow card accepted

Xavi He saw his fifth yellow card of the league championship against Almería, which means he will not lead the team next Sunday against Valencia. The coach did not protest the warning he received from the referee Ortiz Arias: “It’s also my fault to see the cards because I compete and I protest when I shouldn’t. But it is for the yellow ones. Now, I’m starting from scratch.”

Despite the defeat against a modest rival and his self-criticism, the Barça coach wants to see the glass as half full, although he gave a warning to the atmosphere: “We will rise, we will compete, but people believe that going us. to win the League more than enough and No. We are competing against Real Madrid, current champions of the League and the Champions League, and it will be difficult for us. We need to add more intensity, more rhythm, which we lacked in the first half.”

The coach insisted on describing the defeat as “a big disappointment because you can’t be disappointed, especially the first half, it was the worst of the season.”

Finally, he spoke about entering the field of youth Paul Tower: “Pablo is an alternative like Angel Alarconwe changed the system to 3-4-3, we put Ronald (Araujo) on top. We tried in every way, but it was not possible.”

Source: La Verdad

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