In just two weeks directing part of the team, Barcelona has shown a notable change both in their level of play and in the attitude of the players when facing matches. We have not seen a team so excited about winning for years, whether it is achieved or not.
This Barça has reason to believe, to believe that the dream of conquering the league is not a utopia to which only the teams of Madrid and Sevilla can aspire, to believe that achieving the epic in Munich is not the product of a bad dream, because since football can remember, Barça has always been bigger than its critics.
Seeing the small changes that the team has made in two weeks, we wonder what would have happened to this Barça if Xavi had arrived in June with time to work the squad at will.
Surely it is a lot to assume, but it is very likely that the team was already classified for the eighth of the Champions League and in the league championship it would not have lost so many “silly” points against teams a priori much weaker than the Catalans.
The phrase “is what there is” has done a lot of damage to Barcelona in recent months that it has ended up believing it, but everything that this team does not finish among the top four in the league will be an absolute failure that will not be possible. blame Xavi, put the team received in half a table and with the morale in the ground.
We will never know what would have happened if Xavi had had the whole summer ahead of him to plan and make his players see the style, the rules, the values and the team’s game plan, but if in just two weeks he has achieved that show significant changes, imagine what he could have achieved in five months.
Barça has reached the most important stage of the season in a very complicated situation with the league moving further and further away and the eighth of the Champions League being seen in the distance through a spyglass. It is not impossible to rejoin the two competitions and even less if the team shows the attitude that was seen yesterday at the Camp Nou, but it is difficult.
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