Disappointed by the result, but happy for the team’s image. Sad and angry at leaving the Bernabéu with a defeat that leaves them with no options in LaLiga, but encouraged by the good football of his players, who in his opinion deserved the victory. Xavi Hernández, Barça coach, acknowledged that his feelings were contradictory after the match against Real Madrid, but he stuck out his chest for his team, of whom he said he was proud.
“Today everything is a contradiction. We have to be proud of how we competed and played football in the second half,” the coach began his reflection, also claiming his team’s role in defense. “We have defended well except on a couple of occasions. I think we deserved the victory. We deserved these points and they escaped us due to situations that we did not control: quick transitions that make the difference. Very sad because we deserved much more. We have dominated and generated many It’s the game we had to play but it eludes us. It’s like the game in the first round,” he summarized.
Asked by the referees (Barça claimed a ghost goal and a diving goal by Lucas Vázquez in the penalty) Xavi bit his tongue much more than on other occasions, but he was understood perfectly. “Everyone has seen it. It is not necessary to say anything, the images are there. Yesterday you asked me and I said that I wish it went unnoticed and was right, well, neither of them.” And he added that what happened was an injustice. “My feeling is of maximum injustice. It has not been fair. It is my feeling. I cannot deceive anyone. Everyone has seen it,” he denounced.
After the defeat, the Barça coach acknowledged that the League is “very difficult, not impossible, but very difficult.” Furthermore, he said that it was “a shame” that there is no goal technology in the Spanish League and highlighted Lamine Yamal as “a very important breakthrough in football, we are lucky to have him at Barça,” he concluded.
