{"id":5408,"date":"2023-10-28T21:50:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T18:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/5408\/xavi-frustrated-by-clasico-loss\/"},"modified":"2023-10-28T21:50:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T18:50:47","slug":"xavi-frustrated-by-clasico-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=5408","title":{"rendered":"Xavi &#8216;frustrated&#8217; by Cl\u00e1sico loss: Barcelona deserved to win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xavi &#8216;frustrated&#8217; by Cl\u00e1sico loss: Barcelona deserved to win\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Sam Marsden, Barcelona correspondent<span class=\"timestamp \">October 28, 2023, 6:43 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Barcelona coach Xavi Hern\u00e1ndez frustrated after losing on Saturday <em>The classic<\/em> 2-1 against Real Madrid in a match he felt his team deserved to win.<\/p>\n<p>Ilkay G\u00fcndogan opened the scoring, but a second-half brace from Jude Bellingham, including a 92nd-minute winner, ensured Madrid took the points at the Olympic Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The victory takes Madrid back to the top of La Liga, level on points with Girona and four clear of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwho remain third.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe summary of the match is very simple,\u201d Xavi said in his post-match press conference.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Real Madrid handed Barcelona their first La Liga defeat of the season in the derby. <cite>Photo by David S. Bustamante\/Soccrates\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;We had 60 very good minutes and scored a goal. Madrid had 20 good minutes and scored twice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Xavi switched to a back three for the match, with Ronald Ara\u00fajo partnering Andreas Christensen and I\u00f1igo Mart\u00ednez in defense and Jo\u00e3o Cancelo and Alejandro Balde acting as full-backs.<\/p>\n<p>Bar\u00e7a started well, with G\u00fcndogan on target from the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/start\/\"   title=\"start\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">start<\/a>.  Ferm\u00edn L\u00f3pez and Mart\u00ednez then both hit the woodwork for the home side, while Kepa Arrizabalaga produced a fine save from Ara\u00fajo before Madrid turned things around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I said, from my point of view we dominated for 60 minutes,\u201d added Xavi.  But that&#8217;s <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/football\/\"   title=\"football\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">football<\/a>, if you don&#8217;t score the second&#8230; We need five or six.&#8221; [chances] score a goal.  With three, they score two.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Madrid have that in their game. We weren&#8217;t clinical enough. I think our plan worked well. Maybe I&#8217;m exaggerating, they made us suffer late, but I honestly think if anyone had to <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/win\/\"   title=\"win\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">win<\/a> the game, he would. be us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We deserved to win. We controlled Madrid well. They didn&#8217;t create much. A shot from outside the box and then [Luka] Modric doesn&#8217;t control the ball at the end and Bellingham takes the opportunity to score.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The defeat was Barca&#8217;s first in all competitions this season and the first at their temporary home of Montjuic, where they are playing while the Camp Nou is being redeveloped.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xavi &#8216;frustrated&#8217; by Cl\u00e1sico loss: Barcelona deserved to win\u060c Sam Marsden, Barcelona correspondentOctober 28, 2023, 6:43 p.m. Barcelona coach Xavi Hern\u00e1ndez frustrated after losing on Saturday The classic 2-1 against Real Madrid in a match he felt his team deserved to win. Ilkay G\u00fcndogan opened the scoring, but a second-half brace from Jude Bellingham, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1442,3742,3929,3928,343,10,3927],"class_list":["post-5408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-barcelona","tag-clasico","tag-deserved","tag-frustrated","tag-loss","tag-win","tag-xavi"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5410,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408\/revisions\/5410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}