The FC Barcelona has been in the ‘eye of the hurricane’ in the last seven days. The azulgrana suffered a tough defeat once morest Eintracht Frankfurt (2-3) in the Europa League, where more than 30,000 Germans ‘dyed’ the Camp Nou stands white. Added to it, on Monday they fell once more in the culé temple (0-1) once morest Cádizwhich ended up sentencing the chances of winning the League.
Now, Xavi Hernandez He would have exchanged several words with the squad in a meeting prior to training on Tuesday. And it is that according to what the journalist Dario Montero of ‘El Chiringuito de Jugones’ reveals, the egarense would have asked commitment to his footballers and that they defend the shield following what was seen before the Andalusians. In addition, he pointed out that it would be much worse if they let themselves go in the seven league games that remain following the elimination suffered in Europe.
In addition to this, he also adds that the one from Terrassa highlighted several attitudes that he did not like during the commitment and pointed to Memphis Depay, Frenkie de Jong and Clément Lenglet. In fact, the information states that the continuity of French would have been questioned and that the coach himself would have communicated with the technical secretariat to look for a fifth center-back on the market for the next campaign.
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“XAVI has asked the locker room for COMMITMENT and that they DON’T GET CARRIED AWAY”
“POINTS MEMPHIS, FRENKIE DE JONG and LENGLET.”
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– El Chiringuito TV (@elchiringuitotv) April 19, 2022
Dembélé, an example to follow
Finally, the coach gave the example of Ousmane Dembélé’s commitment in recent games. “Look at him, he doesn’t even have a contract”the coach would have said to the entire first team, leaving on the table that the ‘Mosquito’ is ‘sweating’ the blaugrana shirt despite everything that has been said regarding him in recent months due to his contractual situation with the club.
Xavi is focused on restoring the team’s spirits and not letting them get carried away in the final stretch of the season, where Champions places are still up for grabs. Currently, Barça occupies the second position in the general table with (60) points, just above Sevilla (60), Atlético Madrid (60), Betis (57) and Real Sociedad (55).