The Barcelona Football Club put an end to the UEFA Champions League with a rather painful defeat by a landslide against Paris Saint Germain at home, in what was the second leg of the quarterfinals. In the first leg, the Catalan team had achieved a 3-2 victory in a match that took place at the Parc des Princes in the French capital.
The image that Barcelona left at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys was quite poor and that disappointed more than one culé fan, but the eyes were also on the coach and living legend of Barcelona, Xavi Hernández, who could not contain his annoyance and demonstrated once again the helplessness he had in the middle of the match.
“We are disappointed. The expulsion marked the tie, because we were organized. For me the red one was too much. From there another eliminatory began. We have hesitated whether to take Lamine out, because he was fine. But it was a play that marked the tie completely,” commented the former culé midfielder in reference to the expulsion that central defender Ronald Araújo received when the score was 1-0 in favor of the Blaugrana thanks to Raphinha’s goal after a pass from Lamine Yamal.
Xavi exploded once again
At the time of Ronald Araujo’s expulsion, Hernández realized that He was going to be left with one less man on the playing field and quite early and it was the precise moment where anger made an appearance and the world champion in South Africa 2010 vented all his anger against the advertising posters, as well as with constant insults towards referee István Kovács.
The law of the ex that never fails
Ousmane Dembélé made Barcelona pay dearly with the famous law of the former since the French forward He was able to match the actions of the match and the Portuguese Vitor Ferreira scored 2 to 1 for those led by another former culé, Luis Enrique. “We had a 2-2 draw with Gündogan and a 2-0 draw with Robert (Lewandowski), but we were trailing and it was very complicated. It’s a shame that the work of an entire season is left here because of an arbitration decision. “This was an unnecessary expulsion,” he stated. And at the same time Xavi was commenting as if he were sending a direct and clear message to the main player: “The referee was very bad, I told him, he doesn’t understand the game.”
Kylian Mbappé was once again the spearhead of the Paris Saint Germain team by scoring a double which confirmed the culé team’s intentions to reach the semi-finals of the Champions League. For his part, Xavi left a final message for all the culé fans after the elimination of the top European tournament:
“Next year Barça will try again. We have had a remarkable Champions League. You have to control the small details,” concluded the former midfielder who this season was unable to win any of the three main trophies where Barcelona competes; no League so far, no Copa del Rey and no Champions League.
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