Bittersweet memories for Xavi after the breaks of selections

The FC Barcelona will go back to the League this Saturday in Mallorca (21.00 hours) after the first stop by selections of the current course, and will do it devastated by the injuries of Ronald Araujo, Jules Koundé, Memphis and Frenkie of Jong. To these four sequelas of the 'virus FIFA' also has added him the drop of Héctor Bellerín, the one who could be all the month of October without participation.

It will be the third experience of Xavi in a situation like this since it occupies the bench blaugrana. The two previous were marked by positive and negative feelings. The míster of the Barça although saldó with victories the immediate party after the stop, the team went in in a dynamics of negative results that had a very high cost. The first time that the technician of Terrassa found in this tessitura was around the middle of November of the 2021.

The team arrived to the stop chaining four parties without winning with two defeats in front of the Real Madrid (0-1) in the Camp Nou the Ray Vallecano (1-0) in Vallecas that put an end to the 'was Koeman'. Francisco García Pepper did charge of the team of interim way harvesting two ties against the Alavés (1-1) home and the Celtic (3-3) to domicile. Joan Laporta took advantage of the stop by selections to close the contracting of Xavi, that did his debut in front of the Espanyol in the return to the competition. The Barça imposed in this derbi by an apurado 1-0, but after this victory, the Barça was unable to bend to the Benfica in the Camp Nou (0-0), a trip that to the dessert would finish paying him the classification for the eighth of final of the Champions League.

After a worked victory in Villarreal (2-3), the team blaugrana chained two consecutive defeats, in front of the Betis (0-1) in the Estadi and in Munich, against the Bayern (3-0), a result that certifió his elimination of the Champions League and condemned him to contest the Europe League. The second experience was even more complicated, in that occasion to finals of March of the present year.

The Barça attained to chain twelve parties without losing, a series that included the goleada in front of the Real Madrid (0-4) in Santiago Bernabéu. The good feelings confirmed to the return of this stop by selections with a valuable triumph against the Seville (1-0) that allowed him assault the second position of the table. But as in November, the team went back to go in in a pothole that certified the season in white.

It can have problems

In the five following meetings, the Barça only added a victory, in front of the Real Sociedad (0-1), in San Sebastián. It fell deleted of the Europe League in front of an Eintracht of Frankfurt that sealed his classification (2-3) in a Camp Nou full of Germans, after the 1-1 of the gone. And it left all his options in the League with two consecutive defeats in the Estadi in front of the Cádiz (0-1) and the Ray Vallecano (0-1). The calendar now will have the visit to Mallorca and afterwards will play like visitor the Champions League against the Inter, with the first classical of the season in front of the Real Madrid in the horizon. Between half, will receive to the Celtic.