Xavi: “There remains a bittersweet taste for not having achieved the three points”

The coach of the Barcelona, Xavi Hernández, admitted after the tie to one in the field of Sevilla that “he has a bittersweet taste for not having achieved the three points”, although he stressed that he believes that his team is now “on the right track.”

Xavi considered “a shame” the tie achieved in numerical superiority in which it was “a good option to have finished the year well”, but stressed at a press conference that “we must insist because the path is the right one”, since the Barcelona, ​​“as with Elche”, has completed “a great game”.

“I regret not having won. We should have done it after more than twenty minutes with one more. They have taken fouls, which is a way of defending. I am leaving unsatisfied because the question is to give continuity to the good game for 90 minutes ”, added the Catalan coach.

The Barcelona coach estimates that, “despite the 1-1, the image has been very good” because his team has “tried to the end, but could not be”, and avoided referring to the referee’s performance because ” he earns nothing “and, furthermore, he only tries” to help him because whistling is very difficult. “

Sevilla and Barcelona tied one in their postponed match on the fourth day at the Sánchez-Pizjuán, where the Hispanics, who played with ten for almost half an hour due to an absurd action by Jules Koundé that cost him expulsion, spoiled their ‘extra ball’ to squeeze the leader; and the Catalans are still out of the ‘Champions’ zone.

After a game with few occasions, the goals came in the first half in strategic plays, scored by the Argentine Papu Gómez in the half hour and the Uruguayan Ronald Araújo in the 45th minute, after two individual corners. From there, Sevilla, with ten for the red to Koundé, defended well against a Barcelona that crashed a ball into a post through Dembélé, their most incisive man.