Xavi has already said goodbye to the Champions League

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BarcelonaThe defeat sent Barça to hell. The draw leaves him a foot and a half out of the competition. Mathematically, however, Xavi Hernández’s team retains a small gap. To dream of a miracle, Barça needs to beat Bayern Munich at Camp Nou and Viktoria Plzen at home, and at the same time Inter Milan should not win in either of the last two games: at home against the Czechs and, in the last day, at the Allianz Arena with a Bayern that will have the job done. If Barça won their two matches and Inter drew them both, it would also apply to the Blaugrana. But as long as the Italians collect the three points in one of the two games, the Blaugrana will say goodbye, again, to the competition.

“The Champions League is being cruel to us, but we are conceding a lot. We made a lot of mistakes in defense. Starting with the first goal. We had to continue with the rhythm and the game of the first half. It hasn’t been like that and such serious mistakes in defense end up paying in the Champions League”, lamented Xavi after the match. The faces in the dressing room were a poem. “The Champions League has become very difficult. We do not depend on ourselves. We have to change the chip and think about the League. We must now focus on preparing well for the classic”, added the disappointed Barcelona coach.

Xavi almost ended his team’s participation in Europe’s top club competition. “People saw that we put our hearts into it, but we paid for the mistakes: in Munich we conceded in the face of a goal, in Milan there were other circumstances that we better not talk about and, today, our mistakes in defense”.



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