Champions League
Xavi: “I’m angry, we can’t stop a counterattack”
Xavi expressed his anger after Barcelona’s defeat to Bayern Munich in Munich and stressed at the press conference that his team was better and should have got away with the three points.
After beating Viktoria Pilsen 5-1 in the Champions League group opener, Barcelona stumbled to Munich and suffered a 2-0 defeat by Bayern Munich.
Xavi commented on his team’s good performances, but expressed annoyance at the press conference, arguing that it’s impossible to lose a game like this.
The Catalan coach was annoyed with his players’ reaction to the first goal, scored by Lika Hernandez’s header, and the second, which came from a counterattack.
“We were better. We had a great first half but you can’t lose a game like that. It was a winning day, not a draw. I’m pissed, the game got away in the first quarter of the second half. EI’m mad, I don’t like losing. We don’t deserve it.
We were better than Bayern. We created a lot of chances. Small details in Champions League games make all the difference and in the end you pay for those mistakes.
The lesson is not to repeat them. It can’t happen to us from a corner, it can’t happen to us not knowing how to stop a counterattack. We talked about it and we worked on it.
We’re going 0-2, which doesn’t reflect what happened on the pitch. The result is bad, the way we played was good. Errors should be minimized. efficiency was lacking. We had a golden opportunity, we had to take it.”
Source: Sport 24
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Champions League
Pedri commented on the new format of the Champions League: An unexpected look from a football player
Barcelona midfielder pedri He answered the question about his attitude towards the new format of the Champions League with the general group stage.
“Do I like the new format of the Champions League? I can’t say with 100% certainty which format I like more: this one or the previous one?”
If I have to choose, I will do something new: There were more matches between strong teams in the first stage,” said Pedri, as quoted by Esquire.
Before the 2024/2025 season, the group stage of the Champions League consisted of eight groups of four clubs each. All participants played six matches in their respective foursomes, home and away, against each of the three opponents.
From the 2024/2025 season, a new Champions League format comes into force with a common group stage of 36 clubs; each participant plays eight matches, four away and four at home; The opponents are determined by lot.”
Source: Sport UA
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Earlier, English Manchester City played a match against French Monaco in a new round of the UEFA Champions League.
After the match, the head coach of the “Locals” Pep Guardiola commented on the performance of the powerful team.
“In football you can always perform better – and this is the result. Our game today was very good in many ways. And step by step we will improve our results.”
Ale mi gave many speeches today in the right way. We created many scoring opportunities and found Phil Foden active in the first half. Most Gravians played at a fairly high level.
Previously, they did not let their opponents create anything, but created the chances themselves. We adapted very well to the superniks and played very well. This is my opinion.
If you get a good match on the right side, of course you have to… Today we got a great ball, that’s all I can tell you right away.
Holland? It’s really good. He plays to score goals. He struggled with three centre-backs and two supporting defenders in front of him, and it wasn’t easy for his partners to know that. Ale, we can work hard to score goals.
Tse bula spravdi garna gra. We created a lot of chances, but unfortunately in the end we didn’t defend perfectly against a free kick, which would have been quite a few, and we conceded a penalty, which was awarded when the ball hit the first one… well, that’s it.
Referee? “I have nothing to say to the Spanish referees,” said the Spanish footballer.
In the coming round, English Manchester City will visit Spanish Villarreal.
Source: Football UA
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Borussia Dortmund defeated Bask Athletic (4:1) in the match of the other round of the UEFA Champions League.
Problems for the Spanish team started to arise in the first half, when their opponents took away their goal and scored the first goal against their team.
Immediately the “jmeli” got the advantage, after which Athlete won one ball, but ultimately missed two more.
Kind regards, video of the highlights of the match between Borussia Dortmund and Athletic Bilbao in the 2nd round of the UEFA Champions League 2025/26:
Borussia Dortmund — Athletic Bilbao 4:1
Goli: Svensson, 29, Chukwuemeka, 51, Girassi, 82, Brandt, 90+1 – Guruseta, 61
Borussia Dortmund: Male – Sule (Schlotterbeck, 70), Anton, Bensebaine – R’erson, Sabitzer, Bellingham (Nmecha, 69), Svensson – Adeyemi (Bayer, 63), Chukwuemeka (Brandt, 63) – Girassi (Silva, 87)
Athletic Bilbao: Simon – Gorosabel, Vivian (Arezo, 46), Paredes, Lecue – Jauregisar (Laporte, 46), Rego – Williams (Ruiz de Galarreta, 46), Navarro, Gomez (Serrano, 63) – Sannadi (Sanchez, 80)
Next: Bayer-Paredes, Gorosabel
Source: Football UA
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