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The management of the Camp Nou stings Barça

2022-04-17T18:54:48.105Z


The azulgrana receive Cádiz pending the stands after the embarrassment of Eintracht Ferran Torres tries a shot against Eintracht.Joan Monfort (AP) The management of the Camp Nou is even more complex for president Joan Laporta than that of the team for coach Xavi Hernández after Eintracht occupied the stands and the pitch in the Europa League. The echo of the German invasion last Thursday stirs the conscience of Barcelona fans before Cádiz's visit this Monday (9:00 p.m., Movistar


Ferran Torres tries a shot against Eintracht.Joan Monfort (AP)

The management of the Camp Nou is even more complex for president Joan Laporta than that of the team for coach Xavi Hernández after Eintracht occupied the stands and the pitch in the Europa League.

The echo of the German invasion last Thursday stirs the conscience of Barcelona fans before Cádiz's visit this Monday (9:00 p.m., Movistar) in the League.

The

Grada d'Animació

will not appear as a protest – in a statement he speaks of “infamy and humiliation” – and the coach awaits explanations from the club about what happened so that the team felt as if they had been “robbed at home”.

“Everything started and ended badly.

When we left the hotel they threw everything at us, we couldn't enter the first tunnel with the bus and we had to turn around;

It was fateful in every way”, said Xavi.

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The Barça stains the Camp Nou

“It was a mistake”, insisted the Barça coach.

"It has to serve so that it doesn't happen again", continued the coach, disconcerted by the presence of some 35,000 fans from Frankfurt: "It's not an excuse, but what happened conditioned us, we don't feel comfortable at the Camp Nou".

Xavi aspires to recover a “dedicated, faithful and loyal fans”, as was customary before the elimination from the Europa League, “to achieve the difficult qualification for the Champions League.

We need it more than ever after the blow”.

The visit of Cádiz, threatened with relegation, forces us to focus attention on the response of the 85,000 Barça subscribers and tourists, more reluctant to go to the stadium since Messi left for PSG.

The day, in addition, is festive in Catalonia and puts an end to Holy Week.

The Barcelona board does not forget that against Sevilla more than 20,000 seats were left empty at the Camp Nou.

That game, which ended in a 1-0 victory for Barça, as well as the victory at the Bernabéu by 0-4, marked the high point for Barça.

The subsequent matches against Eintracht and Levante have shown a decline in Barça's performance.

“We haven't played so well, we've lowered our level”, admitted Xavi, convinced in any case of the recovery in the remaining seven games, eight for Barça due to Sunday's pending match against Rayo.

“The process requires patience to recover the lost style.

We have to keep believing in what we do”, said the coach.

“There is no need to lurch.

We have won five Champions Leagues with this DNA and the way to convince those who doubt is by improving”, Xavi finished.

A streak of 15 games

The defeat against Eintracht ended a streak of 15 unbeaten games for the azulgrana, who have not lost in the League since last December 4, when they lost 0-1 against Betis.

The absences of Piqué and Pedri —injured— and of Araujo —sanctioned— complicate the aspirations of the Barcelona fans, recurrent in their defensive errors and lacking in light in attack, unable to beat Cádiz in the last three games.

Although the Andalusian team, now coached by Sergio González, has never won at the Camp Nou either, Xavi is concerned with the repetitive turnovers of his team, which has a hard time facing rivals who close well inside and spread out on the outside to face the sides of Barça.

Time is short for Xavi in ​​his debut at the Camp Nou.

The coach and the youngsters like Gavi and Nico, protagonists in the absence of Pedri, have to learn by force because the team is what sustains the club, right now stunned by the aftermath of the Eintracht visit.

The Camp Nou scrutinizes Laporta.

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Source: elparis

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