Barcelona are still yet to lose in La Liga this season, but their six-game winning streak came to an end on Tuesday evening as they were held to a 2-2 draw with Mallorca at Son Moix.
The hosts led twice through Vedat Muriqi and Abdon Prats, but Barcelona equalised on both occasions courtesy of Raphinha and Fermin Lopez, who scored his first competitive goal for the first team.
Xavi was not happy with the manner Barcelona defended last night. pic.twitter.com/bg65ovn7yn
— Football España (@footballespana_) September 27, 2023
It was a frustrating evening for Barcelona, and head coach Xavi Hernandez told the media post-match that it was a game that his side should have won. He felt his side made far too many errors across the 90 minutes.
🚨 Xavi Hernández: "It's an insufficient point, and it's due to our own mistakes. The second goal they scored was a CHILDISH mistake." pic.twitter.com/Y5aC4206cJ
— barcacentre (@barcacentre) September 26, 2023
Xavi certainly has reasons to be angry. Mallorca’s first goal came from a defensive mix-up, while their second came from a long ball that was finished off by Prats.
Barcelona will hope to bounce back quickly. They face Sevilla at the Olympic Stadium on Friday, although the Andalusians will go into that match high on confidence after an excellent win on Tuesday.
I know this happens extremely rarely but just wtf was ter stegen at last night ? I mean the man was literally at fault for both of mallorcas goals without question genuinely one of the worst if not the worst goalkeeping displays from him for barca i have seen not even just his mistakes for the goals but his whole overall game was shocking imo hopefully as i said this is a one off night.
What is also really worrying is how open and defensively unsound we currently look and have looked lately balde last night was mia both in attack and defence,cancelo was exactly the same ,araugo looked a shadow of the real araugo we all know and love and inigo martinez couldn’t even pass the ball although in both araugo and martinez cases i will give them some slack araugo is only back from injury and this was martinezs first start aswel plus as far as I’m aware this was martinez & araugos first game playing together and it showed last night.
oriel romeo was slow,positionaly all over the place,terrible passing and got booked,gundogan was basically mia like balde and cancelo and contributed basically nothing the entire match he basically disappeared in the game i think would be a better way of putting it,gavi was a beast and basically ran the barca midfield single handedly imo especially with how poor both romeo & gundogan were,ferran torres didn’t take his opportunity getting to start the match instead of coming on as a sub he did get chances tbf but unfortunately he didn’t take them,felix was average but did have a great shot come off the post,raphina along with gavi had a great game imo scored a great goal,looked dangerous everytime he got the ball except for the great chance he skyed and missed when put clean through by ferran torres but apart from that he was excellent.
The subs when they all came on all did well and looked good kounde solid,yamal dangerous,lopez scored,lewandowski great dummy for the goal.