In spite of the difficulties that has faced the FC Barcelona in the last years, the arrival of Xavi Hernández has given a second air to a team that came to suffer a hard hit with the exit of Lionel Messi in the market estival of 2021, as well as a serious institutional crisis and economic that there was repercutido strongly in the sportive section. In spite of not attaining titles still, his numbers wake up the illusion of the barcelonismo.
In concrete, the egarense has registered more points that two of his predecessors at the head of the Barcelona bench, taking in account the first 16 commitments of the season. With the victory in front of the Athletic of Madrid in the Civitas Metropolitan by 0-1, already are 41 the points that keep to the culés like leaders of the tournament of the regularity, taking out an important advantage regarding the Real Madrid, that has 'punctured' in front of the Villarreal.
Although it has recognised some problems of operation along the season, in addition to loading by second consecutive year with the elimination in the phase of groups of the League of Champions, the performance in LaLiga, especially in the initial stage of the year, has seated him very well to Xavi, so much in his first course at the front, where attained to guide to the team of the ninth place to the squares of Champions and now to preserve the leadership.
Xavi surpasses to Koeman and Setién after his first 16 dates
With 41 points of 48 possible, the ex midfield player already has left backwards the registers to these heights in the case of two ancestors in the charge. Such is the case of Ronald Koeman, the one who added 28 points in the first 16 dates of the season 2020/21, the last in which the Barcelona have added a title (for then, the Glass of Rey), whereas in the following course would leave, of conjoint way with Xavi, a mark of 24 units.
Likewise, Xavi has surpassed to Ernesto Valverde in this section. For the season 2018/19, the today trainer of the Athletic Club of Bilbao had registered 34 points after his first 16 dates like míster of the Barcelona in the last season that had to the culés like champions in the tournament of the regularity. Already for the course 2019/20, that had to complete Quique Setién after his dismissal, would surpass his previous mark with hardly a point of difference.