Following his team’s 1-3 loss to Real Madrid on Sunday at the top of the ninth-stage games in the Spanish Football League, Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez expressed his unhappiness.
Barcelona received its first loss in the competition this season, compared to 7 wins and a single draw, to freeze its score at 22 points in second place in the Spanish league, 3 points behind Real Madrid, which was alone at the top.
The riyal moved with the intention of signing his French star Karim Benzema in the 12th minute, but that ambition was abandoned after his Uruguayan teammate Federico Valverde scored the second goal in the 35th minute.
Al-Badil scored the lone goal for Barcelona in the 83rd minute of the second half to narrow the gap, but Brazilian (alternative) Rodrigo finally dashed the Catalan team’s dreams of tying the game when he scored Real’s third goal in the first minute of added time.
the use of a penalty shot.
After the match, which took place at the (Santiago Bernabeu) stadium, the royal team’s home field, Xavi issued the following comment to the media: “We are really upset, which did not deliver the best performance, but yet we had some possibilities.”
If we took advantage of the possibilities that were given to us, the outcome might have been equalised, said Xavi.
As the result drew near, the Real defended the opponent’s second-half penalty kick, which they had won rather than lost.
Xavi urged that we must prepare for the upcoming games and that we must keep in mind that when we faced our best opponent, the riyal took use of his best opportunities while we did not. We need to improve our performance.
According to Xavi, we must continue to put in the effort because the league is still quite lengthy and we must contend to win championships this year.
The El Clásico encounter, like any other game, was not a clear-cut conflict that gave us reason for encouragement or confidence. The Barcelona coach concluded by saying that this dynamic needs to be changed.
Barcelona suffers twice as much as a result of this setback because it gets eliminated from the Champions League group stage for the second consecutive season.
Barcelona became close to the farewell of the continental competition, after its disappointing tie 3-3 with its Italian guest Inter in the last round of the third group, where its chances of qualifying for the exclusionary roles of the championship became subject to the results of its competitors..
Xavi acknowledges that the best competitor defeated us.
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