Not at all satisfied with the draw conceded by his men on the RCD Mallorca pitch, Xavi, the Barça coach, spoke bluntly.
FC Barcelona had the opportunity to widen the gap with their pursuers against Mallorca (2-2) on Tuesday evening. Unfortunately, the Blaugranas failed to seize their chance, and therefore settled for a draw. With only one point ahead of its runner-up, Girona, and two points ahead of Real Madrid, the Catalan team, which has one more match, is not immune from being dethroned from its first place. On the sidelines of the match, Xavi, the Catalan coach, gave his critical analysis of the match.
“ We let two points slip away, we made two serious mistakes, thus judged the Catalan. We knew we wouldn’t have many chances and we couldn’t take advantage of them…We have to be critical. We have to win these types of matches. The second goal scored by Mallorca was a childish mistake by our team. We are still leaders, but we will have to see what Real Madrid and Girona do. “, he added.
“We made unacceptable mistakes”
» We are at fault for the first goal, we came back into the match, but when we were superior, they scored the second….It’s our fault, we missed a lot of chances while the score was 1- 1. I remember João had one, Raphinha too… And then they scored 1-2. I think we dominated Mallorca, but we need to improve our performance,” said Xavi.
And to add: “ Last year, defense gave us stability. Today we made unacceptable mistakes. The problem is that Mallorca led because of an error on our part, and while we were better and should have turned things around before the end of the half, another error occurred and the match became very complicated.“
