The Barça-Arsenal match was almost suspended due to the poor condition of the pitch

After finalising the first party of the pre-season for the Barça, Xavi Hernández showed annoying by the excess of hardness employed by the Arsenal. The Arsenal imposed 5-3 and noticed much more intense that the culés. Before the friendly, Mikel Arteta and the Catalan technician coincided in criticising the lawn on which contested the meeting. So much it is so the dispute of the party, already with three chambers of entrance in the terracings of the SoFi Stadium of Los Angeles, ran danger.

Cancel the party was an authentic madness and more taking into account that the Barcelona did not play in front of the Juve by the shoot of gastroenteritis vírica that attacked to his players. However, it fits to highlight that the state of the terrain of game was installed of form improvised for the football match, really dry, high and irregular, with the distinct tepes visible even from the most elevated places of the coliseo Californian, what supposed a risk for the footballers.

Both technicians posed the cancellation of the party and even there were discussions warmed up with the organisers of the party and of turns it. Leave to perceive the two millions again by part of the Barça was impossible. So finally it appeared a brigade of operarios that irrigated the lawn hose in hand, an unpresentable image in a stadium whose cost rose in 2020, date of his inauguration, to 5.000 million dollars.

Controversial statements of Xavi after the party

After finalising the party with defeat for the Barcelona, his technician left clear that surprised him that the Arsenal of Mikel Arteta took the duel like a party something more serious, until the point to say that "it is not normal this intensity, so many tactical faults...". "But it is football, all want to compete", apostillaba to remove weight to the complaint that was making public. In fact, during all the party, the English did almost the double of faults (22) that the Spaniards (12).

By his part, Mikel Arteta wanted to answer him to his mate in press conference. "I think that at the end the football belongs to the players. The other day in our friendly against the Manchester United also there were moments because at the end the players are very competitive. Today we were playing in front of 70.000 people and at the end the player rebels, wants to compete, wants to win".