Barcelona aspires to win and convince against Eintracht

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The echo of the Champions torments the Camp Nou.

The match against Eintracht (9:00 p.m., Movistar) reminds Barça that they play in the Europa League and compete to return next season to the continental tournament par excellence, Madrid's sacred competition.

"The history of Barcelona, ​​not Madrid, demands of us," replied Xavi, the Barça coach, when asked about the open football debate during the week around the quarterfinals of European competitions and Madrid's classification against Chelsea .

"Barça is the most difficult and demanding club in the world," he argued.

“Here you have to win and play well.

A 1-0 win doesn't do us any good without playing well”.

"The latest results indicate that the League is not so far from the Premier," he added.

“It is very competitive.

Our goal is to play against these teams again in the Champions League”.

In Xavi's opinion, Madrid "is another story" and the bar for Barcelona was "set by Johan Cruyff".

So now it's about winning and convincing, defeating Eintracht in a good game (the first leg was 1-1) and playing in the semi-finals with the winner of Olympique Lyon-West Ham (1-1 in the first leg). .

The challenge has its crumb if the Frankfurt appointment is remembered.

The azulgrana were surprised by a rival that barely conceded shots to Barcelona.

Ter Stegen, on the other hand, was very often threatened by the physical, pressing and counterattacking game of the German team.

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Xavi focused the last training session on a tactical session to avoid the mistakes of the first leg, above all "minimizing ball turnovers", and, therefore, "being more neat and responsible with the ball", as well as "finding the offensive timing ” to better attack the spaces in the Camp Nou.

"The point is that we have to be better footballers," concluded the coach, who is watching his defenses.

Eintracht will lack precisely one of its central defenders, the sanctioned Tuta, and they have doubts about Sow.

"We haven't trained at the Camp Nou because some of the things we prepared for the game would have been seen," warned Glasner, the German team's coach, who was also amazed by Dembélé's behavior: "Seeing him go down and recover the ball three times in the match against Sevilla it was impressive”.

Next to him, Trapp smiled when he heard the name of the Camp Nou, a stadium where he conceded that famous 6-1 win when he was the PSG goalkeeper.

“I don't remember what happened here;

I only think about this Thursday.”

Barcelona does not need to come back this time;

It is enough for him to win and maintain his aspirations of winning the Europa League, a title that gives direct access to the Champions League.

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