FC Barcelona is relieved. Thanks to its success over Porto (2-1) on Tuesday, the Catalan club will return to the final phase of the Champions League after having missed it two years in a row. This qualification will also do good for Xavi, who has been called into question a little in recent weeks. He received the support of its president Joan Laporta, who took advantage of Barça’s 125th anniversary to speak and discuss the last result in La Liga: the draw at Rayo Vallecano.
He protested against the refereeing and two penalties on Raphinha and Lewandowski which would have been forgotten, and slipped a tackle at Real Madrid. “Throughout this week we only talked about nonsense when we should have been talking about the Rayo game and the penalty against Raphinha or the one they should have also given to Lewandowski. If this had happened in Madrid, I’m sure there would have been controversy all week.”plagues the Catalan leader.
