Tuesday evening, the sky fell on Barça’s head. Victorious at the Parc des Princes (3-2), the Blaugranas were scuttled at home and were eliminated by PSG (4-1). A defeat which will leave its mark, especially since the locker room is cracked after the exit of Ilkay Gündogan on Ronald Araujo. Aware that his group is affected and in difficulty, Xavi has decided to act.
A.S. reveals that he canceled training this Thursday to allow his troops to breathe, to digest the terrible elimination against Paris and to evacuate the bad atmosphere reigning in the locker room (Sergi Roberto, Pedri and Gavi are the only ones to having gone to the training center this morning, editor’s note). This, even though he had planned not to skip any sessions during the week to best prepare for Sunday’s Clasico against Real Madrid. But yesterday’s training convinced him. He found marked players and above all he found the atmosphere very tense, compared to the declarations of “Gundo”. Atmosphere.
