It’s safe to say that Imanol Alguacil was incredibly frustrated that his Real Sociedad side lost to Barcelona on Saturday evening. They were the better team by far at the Reale Arena, but Ronald Araujo’s late, late winner ended up securing a smash-and-grab win for the Catalans.
After the match, Imanol was furious. He felt that it was a missed opportunity for a big victory, as he told the media (via Diario AS).
“The players and I are very angry, because we played a game to win and we lost it. The fans can be moderately proud (of the performance), but we are self-critical.”
In his own post-match comments, Barcelona head coach Xavi Hernandez praised Real Sociedad, saying that they deserved “much more” from the match. However, Imanol was not particularly interested in his opposite number’s remarks.
“A lot of coaches repeat it when we lose, it’s no longer worth it. I’m tired of so much praise.”
You can totally understand Imanol’s frustration. If any team looked like winning on Saturday night, it was Real Sociedad. Instead, it turned out to be another wasted opportunity for three points for the Basque side.
Is unfortunate xavi does the talking always,complained master(xavi). Am really sorry for barca to be such inadequate manager,he need to go and learned more of tactical knowledge of football
Xavi has tried FOR Barca when consider him as a young coach of very big TEAM Barca, winning last SEASON laliga titles and this topping a group stage of champion.
Personally i don’t see a style,a plan,an identity while watching barca under xavi,he reminds me of a little kid in a sweet shop not knowing which ones to pick in other words he looks lost and confused,yes he did indeed win the league last year correct but imo that was down to 2 reasons 1 barcas defence last season and 2 other la liga rivals standards dropping,regarding being top of the current champions league group no offense to sheffield wednesday or anything but i think even they would easily top this group lol i mean it’s not exactly the group of death now is it,we all seen last year how this xavi team copes with even a half decent group,hell how they couldn’t even cope in the europa league for heavens sake,so im with abba it really is a shame all these great players and unfortunately a clueless manager who doesn’t know what to do with them,as ive said before on here the only time i enjoyed and was actually proud of this xavi barca team was the 3-1 victory in Saudi Arabia over real madrid in the spanish super cup last year,since then its been a shadow an imitation of that team and performance that day imo.