El Barcelona entra en una semana importante para LaLiga con la visita a San Mamés y el Clásico del domingo 19 en el Camp Nou, y lo hace con el «caso Negreira» más latente que nunca después de la denuncia de la Fiscalía esta misma semana. Ya en el partido de ida de semifinales de Copa en el Santiago Bernabéu hubo un acto de protesta de los aficionados y pudieron verse billetes falsos de 500 euros con la cara de Joan Laporta. Lo que han promovido algunas peñas del Athletic Club es que en el minuto 30 del encuentro de hoy se lancen billetes de color azul y granate con el escudo del Barça y la palabra «mafia».
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A lot of logical noise around the Barcelona team generated by a club that has been prosecuted for years, by Neymar, the management of Bartomeu and now the atomic bomb with suspicions of buying referees. «It is an issue that occupies and worries him… Perhaps it is more for the prez. He says that we be calm, that we work, that we are for football, and that’s what I’m at. We have not talked about this issue in the locker room, we have only talked about football and this is what suits me and occupies me in some way, “said Xavi. “I don’t think it hurts us. It’s just a football game. We are focused on what Bilbao does, in defense, in attack, in strategy… We have worked on it and we have tried to study all the issues to compete tomorrow [por hoy], and nothing more. At no time have we talked about what you are saying [la lluvia de billetes]. Winning or losing will not depend on what happens in the stands, “he insisted.
For him, neither today will be important nor in the Classical, after the Real Madrid has made a move and has called an urgent meeting of its board of directors to see how they act. “No, it will destabilize us, in any case Vinicius, Modric will do it…”, he continued, and only in the last answer, when asked if he thought that Real Madrid felt harmed by the “Negreira case”, did he get angry . “It’s a question for them. Tomorrow when they meet, ask them, “said Xavi, who did acknowledge that it was not a decisive week, but it was transcendental.
The coach did not talk much about football, who even confessed that he had too many press conferences before games, that one after the games to explain how they had seen it is enough. So far in 2023, the coach has appeared before the media 35 times, who has to be a bit of a spokesman to deal with all the issues, awaiting the necessary explanations from Joan Laporta about the club’s relationship with Negreira. which is expanding. The club inevitably harms the team no matter how much Xavi tries to focus on football for a match that has a lot of news in a Barca key. On the one hand, the return of Lewandowski, whose loss Barcelona has managed to replace with two 1-0 defeats (in the first leg of the Cup semi-finals at home and at home in the League against Valencia). For the coach, the Pole is more than just a striker. He has so much football behind him that Xavi sees him as a natural leader around whom the rest have to grow, and the player himself already said in his presentation that he came to the Camp Nou to contribute on the pitch and off, to be a kind of Guide for the youngest.
On the other hand, the most notable loss of Barça is the Araujo. In such a physically demanding match, as they always are in San Mamés, Xavi does not have his best defense, since he was penalized with one game for his expulsion against Valencia last day.
Finally, there are the forewarned. Athletic Club – Barcelona is not a match to play with the handbrake on, but it is Busquets, Raphinha, Ferran Torres o Kessie they see a yellow card, they will miss a Clásico that also seems difficult for it to arrive Pedriwith which they want to be very careful to avoid relapses, and that will be lost for sure Dembele’s. “We are going to play with everyone. It is a match as important as the Clásico”.
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