“”I’m angry. I’m angry, we can’t forgive that much.” Xavi He could not hide his anger at Barça’s mismanagement during his visit to Allianz to face Bayern and conceded another defeat (2-0). “When we say fight, he is also competing for a corner or a pass. And if you come in front of the goalkeeper, it should be a goal, very open positions. We need to improve on this,” said the Barça coach. .
Xavi was “proud” of his players’ reaction, but was even more “furious” at the defeat. “I’m angry,” the Barça coach said many times.We were better than Bayern but this Champions. At this level everything is very balanced, learning but very difficult,” stressed Xavi.
“We have to learn from our mistakes. When you take control of the game in a corner at 1-0, it can’t happen to us and then they can’t come out with 2-0, it’s not like that. ! It’s not like that! We tried. That’s the Champion,” he said. Xavi Focusing on Lucas Hernández’s weak defense at the exit of the corner kick and his team’s defensive failure i healed at 2-0.
“At the time-out, I said to the referee: ‘Be honest, was it a penalty or not?’ And he told me it wasn’t a penalty.”
“You have to minimize the mistakes, they stopped the passes, we didn’t. We lacked a lot of activity, it was a golden opportunity to win for sure in this area and you leave with a defeat, you leave with a 2 – 0”, explains Xavi, who does not want to take refuge in the penalty. which they did not call Dembélé in the last minute of the first half. “During the timeout, I said to the referee: ‘Be honest, was it a penalty or not? He said it wasn’t a penalty’.
Coach didn’t get it either. lack of strength of your team in the Neuer region. “We were all wrong, not just Lewandowski. We haven’t scored in 90 minutes. three or four times we were alone in front of the doorman. This is happening, and where it can’t, these are our mistakes that we need to compete better with.”