Xavi: “We will appeal for Vitor Roque, all I ask is that they let us compete”

Xavi Hernandez He regrets the decision of the referee of Valencia after the clear victory of Barça against Alavés (1-3) Martínez Munuera expel Vitor Roque for an unfair second yellow. Although his appearance after the game was focused on praising his players and evaluating the sport, the Egarense coach announced the appeal for that yellow card and sent a very strong message.

“I’m never going to talk about the referees again, I just ask that they let us compete, the Vitor Roque This was a blatant error and we will appeal that yellow. The expulsion is very unfair. I said this from Getafe the first day, I think we are paying Enríquez Negreira, that’s what I think, but I’m not going to talk about referees, ever again. Otherwise you will kill me, but what should I say? A lie?” he asked himself.

Carlo Ancelotti The next morning he answered the complaints of Xavi about the Real Madrid TV referee videos (“they are adulterating the competition, a blind man sees it,” said the man from Egara). “I don’t lower myself to that level, it’s not for professionals,” the Italian attacked him. But Xavi did not enter the situation on the night: “Ancelotti still felt the pressure, but it does not suit him, all my respect to Ancelotti, it will just disappear.”

Regarding the match, he highlighted that “winning is always positive, there are two wins after my decision, I already said I had to announce it and here you can see, we were effective, something that we were missing. . The team fought , Mendizorroza needed it and the team was good with the ball and without the ball we competed well and this match strengthens us. “I am very satisfied with the work, we received a lot of criticism, but it is time to applaud the team,” he explained.

Asked about the work of Christensen as a midfielder, he noted that “it was good, success always proves you are right, but he is very good on the ball, he is comfortable, he gives us order and discipline, we are happy because we got another player in the middle. “He is competitive, he wins duels with his head, he is focused, he is a defender but technically he can play inside, he gives us balance and pays attention to tracking, which is something that missing us.”

He also praised the two youths as Pau Cubarsi, “He’s like a veteran, very happy with him, he never loses the ball, he wins duels,” and Lamine Yamal: “He is a beast of talent, it is a look that is very rare in football, he has everything and he works for the team at the age of 16, he helps the side, he works hard, he never gets tired, he has that humility, he has no ceiling, we have made a strength plan because he is a teenager, what we are facing is different and special.

He applauded that “we have become a mature team, very solid at the back, it knows how to compete in a very demanding, very physical field, we have to focus and the goal conceded is the only negative moment of the game. That goal conceded gave me courage, we had to make a tactical foul on the wing, they couldn’t center us, we didn’t defend well in the area… Despite that situation, the game. be good for us to rest this week, although it is better to be in the semi-final Cup, now to get people back for the day of Granada.Gundogan? Now we don’t have injuries, it’s a blow in the back. AND Peter He doesn’t have anything either.”