Xavi, confident with the Barça squad: Frenkie, Ansu, Balde, Koundé...

Xavi Hernández, trainer of the first team of the FC Barcelona, has pronounced in front of the media in the previous press conference to the split suspender belt in front of the Seville of Jorge Sampaoli. In her it spoke on what expects of the Andalusian group, of the feelings that has with the form to play of the team and of the current state of varied of his referents.

It gave start to the appearance mentioning the hardness of the commitment. "Have a rival complicated in spite of his classification. Sampaoli Has recovered a strong and competitive Seville. It works very well the defensive appearance and does things very good in high pressure. It will be a strong and hard rival and that can complicate us. It is a team that has players with a lot of experience. Tomorrow it will be another examination and it is necessary to happen it with the three points", affirmed.

Also it took advantage of to comment about the good level of the plantel. "The state of the team is sensacional, the people works and from here arrive the results. In general we are in a good moment also in defence. I notice that the Supercopa has given confidence, especially by the young people, that there is a lot of that had not won a title. It is important and free you a bit. We are in good way, still under construction, is a long process", aimed the technician.

On the same line, it cleared the system with four means that has incorporated in the last meetings. "I think that we feel us comfortable with any system. We have done big parties with two extremes. What changes is the name. Perhaps the pulcritud of the man that does not lose so many balloons when being mediocampista. But it does not vary at all. We do the same that the past year but are more mature and with more variants. They are not systems, depending of the player are the same of comfortable", ensured.

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Near to finalise, did emphasis in the actuality of Ansu Fati and Frenkie of Jong. "To Ansu already will go out him the things, have to have patience. It is an active of the spectacular club, trust a lot of, is working very well. It is with a mentality tremenda in the trainings but patience. It is 20 years old and it needs time, as all the world. On Frenkie have said many times that has an enormous potential to do what want. Divide, go in of second line, has warm technical... It possesses all the conditions that engloba a half of the Barça and one of the best of the world. Always it has liked me and it is of the most used by me", sentenced.

Finally, it spoke of Alejandro Balde and Jules Koundé in the saga. "Balde Has surprised us with his so fast evolution and that with 19 years was to a so high level. To the level of a side of the Barça and marking differences, assisting and being important in defence. We have worked it with a lot of defensive things that it is perhaps what less dominated and where more suffered. Very happy by him, deserves it to him. Jules normal is that it play of head office that is his natural position, but is adapting very well of right side. It gives us a lot of things and asociativamente is very well. It is an alternative that have to the not having a natural right-handed side", concluded the egarense.