Xavi Hernandez He admitted that the team was not in good shape in Do Dragao, but highlighted the team’s effort to win “three golden points.” He was left with the ability to compete: “This is the Champions League and it costs a lot, the team gave its heart and soul to get those three points.” He believes that “we have to play better, it’s obvious, we’ll do it, we had to compete.”
Regarding the development of the crash, he explained that “many things happened, difficulty in the game, Robert’s injury, Lamine’s illness… very bad events. I think the first half was good. Yes, there were unnecessary losses, we scored the goal. We talked about how important it is to play opposite and I think we abused playing with Marc. We lack patience, but this is the Champions League,” he insisted.
He added that “in the second we should have had more control, this is the Champions League and it costs a lot.” He admitted that “we didn’t play our best game“But this is the Champions League.”
He mentioned the casualties: “That’s not an excuse, but the best players to handle the ball They were injured in our house. From here, you have to have more personality, but they pressure you, you have to play long and you have the best player to drop the ball injured”, in reference to the loss of Lewandowski. Later, he added: “And good thing we have it to Gundogan”.
Think that “if we talk about negative things, there are many, but there are also positives. We’re talking about ghosts, right?, but we got rid of them a little bit by winning a historic field. It is worth highlighting, and not others.”
He referred to “casualties” and He recalled that “in other games We’ve done a lot of good things, like against Betis… we’ve ended up suffering but this is the Champions League, he insists.” It might be a game to learn to suffer: “Maybe it’s it is good for us to clean the ghosts we told about”.
Regarding the penalty play that was overturned on VAR, he avoided reviewing it, but pointed out that “maybe the difference was last year and it’s in the details. We lacked control, sleeping through the game, we were not good in the second half,” he insisted. And after the second Gavi card He pointed out that “it was an exception, he was controlling himself very well, we believe that with us he has improved a lot. I think it was because he cleared the ball, the referee could have avoided the expulsion.”
Regarding Lewandowski, whom he did not rule out for Granada, he explained that “He has a blow, let’s see if he recovers.””. And about Lamine leaving the locker room, he commented that “he felt unwell. I’ve been saying it for a while and we took advantage of the fact that there was a break to see if he would recover quickly, but They told us he would never get better in the locker room and that’s where we suffered.”
He decided that “The team suffered and made an important effort to get three important points. It was a great team effort, we had to improve a lot of things but I was satisfied with that, because we won three gold points.
He explained that “the players I will tell you that we won in a historic field and it seems small, in other clubs in Europe it doesn’t happen.”
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Source: La Verdad
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