With Portu’s 4-2, Xavi stood petrified, with his arms hanging, looking stunned as his team had collapsed like a house of cards. “The normal thing is that Portu controls but he dares with that volley. “They have sky-high confidence,” explained the coach. Quite the opposite of his Barça, so easy to knock down.
“I am very sad and disappointed. “It’s the summary of the season,” the man from Terrassa cursed, convinced that his team committed harakiri again. “In the last 20 minutes we have not been at the level of Barcelona players,” he was blunt.
Xavi attributed losing a match he won 1-2 to individual errors. “The truth is that we have lost control due to flagrant errors. The whole season has happened to us. We talked about it and it keeps happening. At this level, this is giving away the game,” said the coach, angry at the fragility in both areas. “The lack of effectiveness kills us all season. We were able to make it 1-3. And then in ours we have had flagrant errors that do not correspond to this level of players and club,” he insisted. “The last two goals are from not directing the clearances well,” he analyzed.
History repeats itself. For Xavi the entire course is a loop. “It is a carbon copy of the two Madrid games and the two Girona games. You lose by being superior. Also against PSG. That’s very difficult. We have to change a lot to compete next year,” he said.
Errors and more errors. Mistakes everywhere. These failures, in his opinion, are the result of youth and immaturity. “I guess it’s because of age, that we are a very young team, and we will learn. Players need to fail to improve. Because if not it will be impossible,” he added, before pointing out that “the first 65 minutes have been fantastic, for me brilliant.” That means, according to him, that “the message reaches” the locker room “because in the first hour everyone knew what they should do.”
Finally, Xavi congratulated the champion. “Congratulations to Real Madrid, they are the ones with the most points and fair winners.” But he promised to start war again. “To our fans we can tell them that we are going to give our all to win titles again.”
