Two days left until the return to the league. There are still two days left until the Barça-Athletic match in Montjuïc (Sunday 22, 21.00). However Xavi HernandezBarça’s coach wanted to take to the field today because the focus of attention on Saturday will be the delegates’ meeting. President Joan Laporta will defend his administration as well as advocating “sociological Madridism” before delegates and via telematic means. Negreira is pursuing his case.

This is a new term coined by the Barça leader, who previously described this force in the center of the country as a “Spanish media cave”. Now, the idea of ​​mother developed by Laporta It lies in “sociological Madridism”, an idea also shared by. Xavi’s.

“We did not talk about this in the locker room. We only have to look in the newspaper library, this is 100 percent a reality for the president. Villarato, doping… Always, always with the president”said the Barça coach. “What is sociological Madridismo? I have said it before. When I was a player, they said that there was doping, that we were doping, in the greatest period of this club’s life. Then a newspaper from Madrid and Madrid invented Villarato,” Xavi recalled.

Balde and Lamine Yamal recovered

The Barça coach is becoming more aware of what is happening in the infirmary and is confident that at least two of the eight players he injured will recover. The coach is confident that Balde and Lamine Yamal will be present in this Sunday’s duel against Athletic in Montjuïc; This duel will also be the beginning of a busy week that will end with Madrid’s visit to the Olympic mountain on Saturday the 28th. And by the way, Wednesday the 25th is coming shakhtar Champions League reunion at an unusual time (18:45).

Xavi is in such a precarious situation that he has just 13 first-team players available to face three home games in just seven days. There is Balde and Lamine Yamal, but there is no Pedri, Frenkie de Jong, Raphinha, Lewandowski, Koundé and Sergi Roberto, The last person to enter the infirmary.

“We must recover our ideology despite losses that are not excuses. We need to get 3 points which is very important. Why did this happen? Because of the calendar and bad luck. “They have bad luck,” Xavi admitted, unwilling to look for an excuse or justification. “No, this is not an excuse,” the Barça coach said.

“Lamine Yamal, Balde, Gündoğan, Araujo and Ter Stegen They will be ready for our match against Athletic,” said the Barça coach.