On Sunday, at the same press conference XaviFed up with the 12-point lead against Madrid being whittled down, he insisted that “winning the Liga is the host, it will be something extraordinary”, he left another headline for the next generation: “We are a young team and we have to mature with the slaps” . He said it in Catalan and Spanish, active and passive. This is the formula of Xavi to explain that Barça is a team under construction and that it will recover from defeats and grow based on painful accidents.
But acceptable slaps are one thing and another, that from the dark brown (to continue the metaphor), is that Madrid puts you 0-4 at the Camp Nou, something that the Catalans are waiting for for the 50-year insignia as a partner they have never seen before. And it was that, new Benzemathe last ‘hat-trick’ by a Real Madrid striker at the Camp Nou, was achieved puss in 1963, in a 1-5 league. He didn’t even make it Hugo Sanchezneither butragueñoneither christian… And that’s right, in 61 years, no one has traced a 0-1 cupbearer against Barça at Camp Nou. Then it’s Madrid. Right now. “Do you want to see each other?” Of course? But it’s just that the slapshot poker game in the last year and a half does not end here.
Two years in a row (never before) Barça did not reach the round of 16 in the Champions League. And, sentenced to the Europa League, the team didn’t measure up either. Neither young, nor amortized captains, nor built or in deconstruction. Exactly, after so many disappointments, winning the League will not be “hosted” as he said Xavi. It will be, and should be, “the host”, with forgiveness.
Source: La Verdad
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