Barcelona have a hard time digesting the loss to Cadiz: "We need to do a home inspection"
In Spain, Xavi's team was killed after a historic embarrassment: "I feel we lost today in the final, we must qualify for the Champions League," said the coach
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19/04/2022
Tuesday, 19 April, 2022, 06:30 Updated: 06:45
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Frankfurt's 2: 3 Summary over Barcelona (Sport 1)
Barcelona's shocking season opener was almost forgotten in light of the big change Xavi has managed to make since being appointed coach of the team in November, but last week has certainly greatly spoiled the change for her.
After almost three months without a loss, the humiliating 3-2 came to Eintracht Frankfurt who finished the Catalans' way in the Europa League, and last night (Monday) the team recorded a historic home loss at the Camp Nou to Cadiz, which won 0: 1 and went above the red line.
Led by the brakeman Luis Hernandez, ex-Maccabi Tel Aviv, Cadiz managed to beat Barcelona at the Camp Nou for the first time in history and is already counting four consecutive meetings against the Catalans without a loss - an amazing figure given the team only in 2020/21 returned to the Premier League Barcelona time and time again.
In fact, Barcelona's last win over Cadiz was somewhere in April 2006.
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First league loss since December, and another historic one (Photo: Reuters)
Although for Barcelona it was the first loss in the Spanish league since December, the media did not take pity on Xavi and his players: Newspapers published in Madrid stung: "Barcelona retires from the league."
At the end, Xavi claimed: "I feel we lost today in the final, but we have seven more finals to play and at the end we must have the ticket to the Champions League next season. We have to criticize ourselves, analyze what we did wrong and change the negative things. Of course they were missing. We have players like Federy and Areruho, but that's not an excuse at all.
Brakeman Eric Garcia added Xavi: "We must not let three points escape us in this way and I do not think the loss on Thursday affected us. We were unable to score and the goal we conceded broke us a bit, but on Thursday against Sociedad another final awaits us."
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