Seven victories, seven defeats and six ties are the bagaje of Xavi Hernández like trainer in European competitions, in exactly two years. It is a challenge that follows him resisting and, although it is very soon to dictate sentences, especially because it is opened the classification, yes sees forced to do self-criticism and question what so much is missing him to the team to consolidate . For the moment, the FC Barcelona seems a team under construction, but after two seasons and half would have to be speaking of a more done project. And it is all the contrary.
Can accuse that there are players very young, that have existed a lot of changes in the changing room with the exit and arrival of players, but with a staff like this, the team would have to be for things bigger and no performances, a week yes and the another maybe, that do not have at all that see with the message that offers the trainer. It asks the excellence, yes, and the criticism for the Barça always is greater, also. Even like this, it expects more. Especially in nights like the ones of this Tuesday against the Shakhtar.
And it is that, although the blaugrana still have a lot of options to classify to the eighth of final, can not allow performances like these. Had to shot concretise the ticket to the following phase and have wasted it. They needed a point, but the Shakthar was the one who gave the feeling to be a team 'big' and with personality in front of one that did not know very very what do or how advance. The players threw arrows to the air to see what happened and can accuse to that some do not understand what ask. But with two years in the bench, the expectations are greater.
Xavi, forced to step forward
Has the fortune that the football has bad memory and that, after the stop of selections, could be confirming the classification, but is a called of attention for Xavi, without place to doubts. It is not alone 'lose' and leave in vilo the pass to eighth, is that the team has not given in ninety minutes an apex of the excellence that, as so much it repeats , look for. And there it goes more than the protagonists on the lawn. The Barça already has gone through a lot of disappointments in these last two years in Europe (Bayern, Benfica, Inter...), but probably this has to be one of the hardest.
The one of Terrassa has to shake and recover the north before it was very late. The classification to eighth would not have to be at stake and have to go back to give the feeling of solvency. There is staff to do it, by what the responsibility is in his hands. The confidence in him keeps on being full, from all the sectors of the club, by what has to find the formula so that the team no 'fall' when it goes up the requirement. Europe does not expect and the Barça, if no awake, could leave happen the train.