Xavi praises Barcelona’s season and emphasizes the importance of concentration for upcoming match against Rayo Vallecano

11 points behind Real Madrid, with the league championship almost sentenced and after a good victory against Atlético de Madrid, Xavi appeared at the press conference prior to the clash against Rayo Vallecano giving credit to his team’s season. He wanted to emphasize the great work done in recent months, especially knowing the situation from which the club came.

“If we win the League it will be a hostage,” declared the FC Barcelona coach, who lacks a few points to seal the title mathematically. “They know about the sporting and institutional difficulties we’ve been through,” he said. However, he stressed that “nothing has been won yet.”

“We have a significant distance, but not definitive,” said Xavi Hernández, who does not want relaxation. On the other hand, he assumed to see himself a little closer: “Each victory is a blow on the table, one more step.” In addition, he thought that “Barcelona fans are going to value a lot” this league, since it was the “main objective” of FC Barcelona.

“If we add the next nine points it would be almost definitive, but we will have to add them”, Xavi commented at a press conference. However, he also confessed to not having “thought” exactly how many points they need.

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An “intense” match

He gave importance to the concentration that his team must have in a fief like Rayo Vallecano: “We have warned the players that it will be an intense game, they are aggressive, the distances are shorter. If you fall asleep, you will have two or three players pressing you “. He considered that they should be “more precise than usual.”

And about the previous game against Atlético de Madrid, he showed a happy state: “We were good, with patience, a little better in the second half than in the first.” “We saw a good Barça”, he added.

He was also asked about a possible return of Messi to FC Barcelona, ​​but he downplayed the matter: “It’s a hypothesis and we don’t contemplate it. We are waiting to win the League. I like to talk about Leo, but now is not the time.” About the dinner that the Argentine had with the captains, he pointed out that he only went “to the desserts.”

‘The gardener’

Xavi downplayed the nickname he receives from certain fans: “It makes me laugh. The gardener thing is from many years ago. Better a gardener than anything else. I take it as a joke.” “In a few years we’ll be thinking about things like when there was no real time, tall grass or waterlogged grass,” he added. On the other hand, he sent a message to Rayo Vallecano ahead of next Wednesday’s clash: “I hope the pitch is in the required size and playing at 10:00 p.m., he will favor us.”