Xavi Hernández does not know another thing that the victory against the Athletic of Madrid. Since it assumed the reins of the Barcelona bench, in November of 2021, has confronted in five opportunities to the team of the 'Cholo' Simeone and all the crosses have saldado with the same result for the culés: triumph. They are five parties in which the trainer egarense has surpassed, many times with grow, to the rojiblancos.
This Sunday has taken place the last crash between blaugrana and rojiblancos. Both teams arrived to the party with positive spirits after concretising the classification to the quarter-finals of the Champions League, but the Athletic had the 'disadvantage' that it had played extention and lived the batch of penaltis. They arrived to the limit physically and finished them happening bill. The Barça took advantage of the lacks and the fault of ideas to win them with more solvency of what any one had expected.
Xavi signs a new key victory
And it is that it is not a lower fact that the victory went in the Cívitas Metropolitan. Before the party of the day 29, the Athletic had won thirteen parties in his house of fourteen, with a tie. It is the best team like venue of LaLiga and had added 40 points of 42 possible. Now, they have registered his first defeat in what it goes of season in front of a Barça that did not leave them options to answer or put of full in the party and look for options for 'contest it'. The merit is of Xavi Hernández.
It has found him the 'measured' to the Athletic of Madrid and signs his fifth triumph, of five possible, against Simeone. In February of 2022, the Catalans imposed with goleada in the Camp Nou (4-2), in an exhibition of party, whereas in the season happened both clashes solved by the minimum (0-1 and 1-0), to the equal that in the crash of the first turn. It has been in this occasion in which the culés have been able to 'desquitarse' and show a version more than convincente, with a lot of 'gunpowder' and tarpaulin in the last metres.
The Xavi-Simeone for now
Everything seems to indicate to that this Sunday have lived the last clash between Xavi Hernández and Diego Pablo Simeone. The trainer culé has announced that will abandon the team when it finish the season and will give step to a new stage for the club, although they exist some voices inside the Barça that think that could remain. In any case, the one of Terrassa lived the greater part of the party from the terracings, after his expulsion by double yellow in the final stretch of the first part. In spite of this, has lived the 'better' possible farewell of the Metropolitan.