Xavi, coach of Barca: “I will take the final reaction”

Club coach Barcelona, ​​Xavi Hernandez, He explained that he stands by his team’s “final reaction” after the 2-2 draw against Manchester Utd in the first match of the round of 16 European league.

“We matched them with intensity and we used character. In Europe, after conceding a goal, we lost in other games,” Barca coach insisted at the press conference after the game.

So he said he had a “feeling that he was quite pleased despite the tie” because he was Barcelona competed “against a team that is at a spectacular level, one of the best in Europe now”.

Barcelona had chances to win in the last part of the match. And there was even a possible penalty by the hands of Fred. “It’s a penalty like a cathedral,” he was sentenced Xavi.

“How will you feel? They didn’t give us more in Milan (against Inter in Champions League). It’s amazing. They seem to me to be very clean hands,” he added.

Barcelona will not be able to count on Gavi due to suspension, and probably not even Pedri, who withdrew due to a right leg muscle injury. The good news came from Xavi: “We will certainly bring Busquets back on Sunday.” Instead, he said that Ousmane Dembele and beyond Not.

As Raphinha, the scorer of Barca’s second goal, who was substituted in the second half and showed his anger, Xavi explained how the player’s reaction seemed “perfect”.

“I understand that perfectly. Later he came to apologize to me and I told him that I understand that. I tell them that they must be angry with the coach. It seems to me that it is very good. I see it very positively”, he thought about this issue.

On the other hand, when asked about the resonance of the case Negreira’, Xavi He again referred to the club’s press release and said that “at no time does he want to win against fraud”, that if he ever “sees that” he goes “home”.

the key in between FC Barcelona and Manchester Unitedwill have to be defined in England in the second game.