Xavi Hernández suffered like few times in the duel against Celta. With ten minutes remaining, the Vigo team had the game in their hands. The one from Terrassa was screaming on the sideline trying to get his players to obey and comply with the positional game. And so came a comeback that Xavi Hernández himself described as “spectacular.”
“It has been a spectacular comeback. We have believed until the end, with faith and courage. Today we have gotten messy many times, it was not the circulation of the last games, but the team shows faith and it is a brutal comeback. When you don't play well you have to get these things out, and this is the desire to win,” he explained on the Dazn microphone.
The coach explained that he always tried to look for more risks, even though the rival's goals made him have less and less hope. “We were taking more and more risks, we were left with two centre-backs and the other offensive players, interior full-backs, wing-midfielders, wing-forwards… we had to take risks and it turned out very well for us,” he reflected.
Although the result was in their favor and Barça managed to come back from 0-2 in seven minutes, Xavi said that they should "play better" and that "it was not our best game." And he did not hesitate to personalize the victory in the courage that Gavi brought. “He can play in all positions in the middle. Today if we have to personalize someone, it is him. The 0-2 was a blow, Barcelona normally did not overcome this. Today we won in faith, in courage and in the fact that the team wants to win,” he concluded.
