FC Barcelona president Joan Laporta is upset with head coach Xavi Hernandez over the first team’s performance in the Champions League against Inter Milan on Wednesday.
The Blaugrana trailed the Italians twice due to poor defending and carelessness.
Although Robert Lewandowski tied the score on both occasions to make the final score 3-3, Barca is effectively eliminated from Europe’s premier club competition at the group stage for the second year in a row, which will reportedly cost them around €20m ($19.5m).
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The international break must bear some of the guilt for the deaths of Jules Kounde and Ronald Araujo. However, as Xavi acknowledged following the game, you don’t deserve to be in the Champions League if you can’t defeat Inter at home.
The manager made a mistake by starting an aging Marcos Alonso and benching Alejandro Balde. The same reasoning also applied to not playing Frenkie de Jong right away.
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The four-time champion of the European championship as a player has yet to demonstrate his Champions League credentials in the coaching booth, despite all the buzz of Barcelona having their finest La Liga start in five years.
With a loss to Barca’s arch rivals, which would seriously upset their chances of winning La Liga, pressure will only increase on Xavi.
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