Xavi spoke after the game on the microphones of Movistar LaLiga and then in the press room. These were their ratings.
What happened in the first part?
They did it well. They were 4-2-3-1 in attack and adjusted with two points. We have tried to go out with Busquets. They can’t make us that goal. We had talked about it and we had seen it on video. It is our mistake. I think the second half was good and we deserved the goal. You have to be smarter tactically, stop that counter. We should have done it. We had discussed that during the week. Today it was the other way around than against Villarreal. It is difficult for us to generate and mark. We have to improve many things. Watching the game from my position, it was a game to win. But it is reality and you have to assume it. The goal bothers me a lot because we had worked on it
Are you worried on a mental level for the final in Munich?
I will try not to. I have already told the players that this is football and that the job has been done and that it has gotten out of hand. The goal we have conceded cannot happen to us. This is Barça and at Barça they are constantly finals. Sure it worries me, but it’s football. To keep working, adjusting. We cannot allow the goal. To work and to improve. It’s a shame not to get a point today. The second part was even to win.
What do you ask Memphis?
Make him understand when to go into space, when to get short. Memphis is giving us things, but we have to be more aggressive in attack. We are being it in defense, and we have to be more aggressive in attack. We have to generate more things because the rival does not forgive you. It is what we have to try. When we have good minutes, it is when we have to get ahead. If we had gone ahead we would have won the game well.
He has repeated that this is Barça and that it is only worth winning. He has always insisted that people should walk away proud of their team.
I think so, what do you think? We had a very good second half. The first has cost us due to a tactical issue. And that’s why we were not progressing and we lacked patience in the opposite field. When we adjusted the line of three, we were soon in the opposite field. We have left our skin. I am honest and always will be. The flower is finished and everything is finished, right? We had them. Betis is a direct rival and it will be. It is a step backwards but we must continue and change the chip that we will soon have another final.
Why so many changes in the team?
Frenkie had not trained on Thursday due to hamstring problems, Gerard has some discomfort … And there are level players to replace them. I have thought about the player and with Ousmane we had a plan and he is ready to play well. I have not made the team thinking about Wednesday.
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