Xavi Hernández continues to be the head coach of the Barcelona Football Club who tries by all means to shorten the gap in terms of points to try to win the Spanish LaLiga championship, as well as soon qualify for the quarterfinals in the Champions League.
In addition to this, Xavi is also recognized for his temperament as a coach and the numerous occasions on which he has been reprimanded. and expelled from a match in some competition, something that seems to be a time bomb in the Blaugrana entity.
Xavi spoke about his expulsion against Getafe
“I told the referee that they were allowing a lot of fouls and we weren’t. That is why he has expelled me”, The culé coach explained, referring to the red card he saw in the second half of the match.
“He blatantly protested one of my decisions,” the referee justified in the minutes. Xavi’s anger did not end there. On the contrary, the great annoyance that Hernández presented only became much bigger with his statements. “The other day we had a meeting with the referees and the first change in the rule they told us was that they would understand us coaches better, as we endure a lot of tension during the games.”
Xavi was quite clear at the beginning of the season that he would not have very friendly times with the referees. “On the bench I always talk, I am passionate, I protest, I get angry, I live the game… I am like that and I am not going to change”commented the coach after Barcelona’s victory against Porto, a duel from which Xavi left with a yellow card.
The numbers of Hernández’s warnings
The former Catalan player has received a total of eight yellow cards and one expulsion since the beginning of the season. Since it premiered in November 2021, Hernández has been awarded a total of 22 cards, 21 of them yellow and one red.
Xavi responded to all this problem
“I’m not going to talk more about referees. I already said my opinion last week. With all the education in the world I am not going to answer you“, he expressed after the expulsion of Vitor Roque in a match where Barcelona faced Alavés in Mendizorroza. “I will try not to receive the fifth yellow,” said Xavi before visiting Athletic in San Mamés, something he did not achieve. “But you can’t tell me that I’m not involved, huh,” he commented in mockery before the game.
“I try to transmit that intensity to the players,” he tried to explain about his performances in the band and his protests. For the second consecutive season he will have have to serve a one-match suspension due to the accumulation of warnings. Always for angrily protesting the decisions of the referee team. There is another fact that speaks of the nervousness with which Xavi experiences the games in the technical area and that is that 17 of those 22 cards were seen when the team was not winning on the scoreboard.
Neither Guardiola nor Luis Enrique surpass Xavi
Xavi is the leader of recent times in the culé club in terms of warnings, and this is something that not even Pep Guardiola and Luis Enrique have been able to overcomeeven though the aforementioned were also known for their temperaments and ways when they addressed the referees.
At the time Guardiola was sent off in three games – Bayern Munich, Osasuna and Almería – and was given a total of four yellow cards. -Athletic, Valencia, Osasuna and Sporting- throughout his four seasons on the bench of Fútbol Club Barcelona. All of them for protesting. For his part, Luis Enrique had more run-ins with the press than with the referees. He only saw one yellow card, in the second leg of the Spanish Super Cup against Athletic.
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