THE Barcelona suffered a 1-0 away defeat by Shakhtar Donetsk in the context of the 4th matchday of its groups Champions Leaguecontinuing a period of poor performances and mistakes in its suspension function, which it pays dearly for.
In statements made by the “Blaugrana” coach, Xaviexpressed his confidence in qualifying for the next phase, while appearing unhappy with the level of his team’s performances, as well as the fact that they are conceding a lot of goals.
“We are not in danger of qualifying for the knockouts, nor am I worried about the match against Porto because we still rely on ourselves to qualify. The main thing for us is to recover in the next game against Alaves“, he said initially and continued:
“Our performance level is very low at the moment. We need to restart the engines, nothing is lost yet, but we are not satisfied. In short, we’re doing it wrong. We concede too many goals. We don’t feel comfortable» and closed:
“My job is for the players to regain confidence and dynamism. We played very good games this season but now we are in a bad moment and we have to recover the previous feelings».
Source: Sport Fm
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