Get strategy lessons from Xavi – What we can learn?

Getting smart with the matches

Getting smart and giving lessons is a house brand. There they have Laporta blaming the partners and the inheritance received after the field was filled with Germans. And there you have Piqué , also very dignified, raising his voice to say that he does not ask anyone for favors one day before everyone heard him ask ‘Rubi’ to intercede so he could go to the Olympic Games or for his Andorra to play in a more affordable group. In the story they are champions, that must be admitted, but the bloody reality insists on going against them and exposes their shortcomings on the field and in the box. If you have to shrink balls, they shrink, if you have to ask for favors, they are requested and if you have to sell tickets to the rival to make cash, they are sold. The problem is in the mania of rising and teaching as if they were the mirror in which everyone should look at themselves and learn, because to return to being a reference they still have a world left and the discourse is not sustained.

Barcelona had many ups and downs

Going ahead, Barca has been able to beat Villarreal (this one in the first round), Atlético, Sevilla, Real Madrid and Real Sociedad since Xavi arrived . At the Reale Arena he got oil from a dog night that started well but in which it got smaller. Then, he ended up shortening balls and with the best Ter Stegen of the season saving him the game with worthwhile stops and that authority that had been missing for a long time in the German. Xavi said recently that “winning 1-0 in the 90th minute is not worth it at Barca”. But what happened in San Sebastian, if it wasn’t that, it was very similar. Sometimes winning is enough.