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Xavi Hernandez couldn’t hide his disappointment, after Barcelona lost in the quarterfinals Europa League from Eintracht Frankfurt. This is unique!
Barcelona vs Eintracht Frankfurt played at Camp Nou, Friday (15/4) early morning WIB in the second leg Europa League quarter-finals. In the first leg, the two teams drew 1-1.
Eintracht Frankfurt appeared surprising with a quick 2-0 lead in the first half via Filip Kostic and Rafael Santos penalties.
After halftime, Kotic made a brace. Barcelona only managed to catch up in the last minute through goals from Sergio Busquets and Memphis Depay’s penalty. The final score was 3-2 and Frankfurt qualified for the semifinals with a 4-3 aggregate.
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Frankfurt beat Barcelona in the Europa League (AP/Joan Monfort)– |
Xavi Hernandez bring out his quirks. First, Xavi doesn’t like seeing the Camp Nou full of Eintracht Frankfurt fans!
“The atmosphere didn’t help us, it’s like a final with an even crowd. The club is checking what happened, it was a miscalculation on our part,” Xavi said. AS.
“Today I was expecting a Camp Nou with 70,000 or 80,000 Barca fans, but it wasn’t like that.”
 Eintracht Frankfurt fans packed the Camp Nou (Getty Images/Eric Alonso)– |
Second, Xavi focuses on the Barcelona game. According to Xavi, Pedri et al seemed to have forgotten how to finish off the opponent!
“It’s like we don’t know how to attack the right way,” said Xavi.
“We’ve never been like this before. We had the ball but we didn’t take advantage of that,” he added.
The last three aliases, Xavi Hernandez so disappointed with the mistakes made by players Barcelona. As a result, Frankfurt got a penalty and it was so easy to have shooting space to score!
“We made a lot of mistakes. The penalty they got was our fault, until their third goal was also our fault. This game will be a valuable lesson,” he concluded.
(aff / then)
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