Tuesday night, following Barcelona’s 2-0 Champions League loss at Bayern Munich, head coach Xavi Hernandez criticized his team for failing to take advantage of their opportunities. He claimed that his team “dominated” the match.
Bayern outscored Barca twice in the span of four minutes against the flow of the game to take the lead in Group C by three points. View More
Barcelona outshot Bayern 18-13 and had more possession than the German team.
“I am angry. I do not like to lose. We have not deserved it,” Xavi told reporters.
“Last year I was angry because they were far superior to us. Today I think we played better than Bayern … We dominated them, we subdued them.
“We created many clear chances to score and it would have changed the match. In Champions League matches, it’s always about details.
“At this level everything is very even and you pay for these mistakes and today it is a hard learning, but it is like that.”
Xavi stated that his team must minimize errors.
“There was an error at a corner, there was an error in a transition that we did not stop and they have stopped transitions many times,” he said.
“And then what we have failed, we have failed a lot, there has been a lack of effectiveness that we have normally had … So the way to play was very good, positive for this part, but negative for the result.”
