FACING THE COPA DEL REY
Without rest: Barça trains after the draw against Espanyol
Xavi Hernández has called the Barça squad to train on January 1, when it was originally planned that the Catalans would have a day off. Doubts in the derby require immediate solutions
Although the last edition of the derbi Catalan between the FC Barcelona and the RCD Espanyol has been blurred by the controversial referee's performance by part of Antonio Miguel Mateu Lahoz, Xavi Hernández has been very critical with the performance of his players, by what practically has exculpado to the Valencian referee of the result. Besides, it has summoned to a session of training grieve to few hours of the crash.
In accordance with the newspaper 'Sport', the egarense had foreseen to concede a day of rest to the staff, but the doubts left in the crash in front of the pericos would have carried to the míster to alter his planning, considering that surely there will be varied adjust for making of face to the next party, in which the culés will be measuring to the Athletic of Madrid in a hard square like the Cívitas Metropolitan looking for preserve the leadership.
But before, the culés will be confronting in front of the Intercity in the frame of the round of 32 of the Glass of Rey. It is possible that the míster make some rotations to preserve to varied of his players of face to the next clashes suspender belts, that in this course will be prioritarios. This commitment, in which the Barcelona will struggle for advancing to the following instance of the competition, will contest the Wednesday 4 January.
In consequence, the players of the first team will not be able to have distractions after the celebrations of Nochevieja. The team, that comes of a meeting in which it has had all his effective available once surpassed the injuries and raised the sanction to Lewandowski of provisional way, has to correct the course to direct to the title in the tournament of the regularity, that is the big aim of the season.
Xavi, autocrítico after the tie
In spite of the controversy in which it has seen wrapped the meeting with the performance of Mateu Lahoz, the trainer has not blamed to the Valencian by the tie in the Spotify Camp Nou: "we Have gone down the rhythm, the tie is ours fault, are errors especially of effectiveness. But I do not blame to Mateu of at all, the tie is ours fault. We have had very clear. This film have seen it many times".
