He Barça suffered a crushing defeat against Girona which leaves them 7 points off the top of the league standings. The Barça team started the game well, dominated and Dobvyk’s first goal succeeded in Lewandowski’s goal. However, half an hour into the game, the brilliant emergence of full-back Miguel Gutiérrez disrupted the Barça team. In one of his arrivals, Girona’s left winger put Montjuïc’s score at 1-2 and left Barça on the scoreboard again.
at rest, Xavi decided to apply shock therapy. In other games that were complicated at the end of the first 45 minutes, the Barça coach used love and psychology. It is, for example, Alavés day. However, the previous day the coach of Terrassa decided to give his team the strength to emphasize it in a scenario where a direct rival for the Liga won.
Xavi He raised his voice and energetically addressed his players to tell them that Girona could not beat them out of desire, that they could not allow themselves to be dominated or go ‘tran tran’, emphasizing on a psychological level they have to show that they are Barça, that is, the big team of the game.
The League, in danger
The coach told his players that it was a matter of desire and wanting more because they were superior to the opposing team’s players. He told them that there was a lack of aggressiveness and they needed to put it down because the League was going to be lost, that instead of getting a point by winning they could be within 7 if they lost. In fact, he told them that the Barça dominated for 30 minutes but the Gironawho dominated the remaining 15, surpassed them.
Inadequate reaction
Xavi He turned around on several occasions and tapped the blackboard on which he had written his tactical instructions several times, although this time he did not destroy it, as he had accidentally done on several previous occasions. None of the players said anything but instead they assumed the coach’s powerful message.
At the beginning of the second half, a Barça more aggressive. In fact, in the first two minutes there were already two fouls by Cancelo and Koundé against Couto and Savinho, respectively. The team created chances and had a shot at 2-2 several times. But it never came and they lost the game 2-4.
Source: La Verdad
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