2023-10-05 12:29:41
Only two teams in the Champions They remain undefeated in Europe. One is Milan, which has drawn both games 0-0. The other is Barça, which has won both with six goals (unequally distributed), leads its group with six points and travels through Europe with a different air.
They got together again Ronald Araujo and Jules Koundé in the team and Barça kept a zero goal. Recovering the basic principles that built the conquest of the League, beat Sevilla by the minimum y discouraged Porto with a resistance which little by little is becoming recognizable in Xavi’s team, accustomed to having to manage minimal advantages in adverse conditions due to their shortages.
Barça, Madrid, Bayern and City are the only teams that have added six points.
A list of misfortunes
There was, of course, in Do Dragão, a list of misfortunes that had no effect for once: Lewandowski was injured, thus joining the casualties of Pedri, Frenkie de Jong and Raphinha; Lamine Yamal was absent from the field for nine minutes due to a stomach ailment; The referee gave Barça cards, with seven yellow and one red by accumulation to Gavi, and there was a goal and a penalty disallowed (this one by the VAR) against Porto that, far from discouraging the blaugranas, cultivated their capacity for suffering, turning the victory in a bad game into a heroic one.
Araujo left the field stiff, “completely lame, not half lame”, corrected Marc André ter Stegen al final. The goal equalized the 387 matches of Antoni Ramallets under the goal posts with the second consecutive zero after the victory over Sevilla in the League (1-0) and which closed a loss of four goals conceded against Celta and Mallorca.
Anticipating the criticism that he assumed was coming, Xavi announced what it was the message that would transport the girls celebrating the triumph inside Do Dragão.
“I will tell you again that this is the most difficult club in the world. You win 0-1 and we are seeing the glass half empty. We won and everything seems little. That does not happen in other clubs,” explained Xavi, revaluing the victory by remembering that The Champions League is the highest level competition, where victories are very expensive and Barça is recovering from a global crisis like few others have suffered in their history. Last year they only had three points, two years ago they had lost the two initial games.
“You win 0-1 and we are seeing the glass half empty. We win and everything seems little. That doesn’t happen in other clubs”
Barça coach
Xavi was upset by the pessimism he detected in the first European outing, denouncing “ghosts” and “negativity” the day before, but the victory finally prevented that haze from remaining over the team.
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“If we talk about negative points there are many, but if we talk about positive points there are also many. It’s Europe, the Champions League, everything costs a lot,” he said, underlining the difficulties in praising the two victories of the competition. Barça, Madrid, Bayern and Manchester City They are the only teams of the 32 participants that have added six points.
“We had the best footballers to hold the ball at home when injured and your reference player to get the ball down is injured, which is Lewandowski, it’s obvious,” Xavi pointed out as a drawback, without hiding that there was a lack of clairvoyance among his players. “We must be calmer, we must keep the ball more, with more patience and showing more personality,” he acknowledged.
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