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New Barcelona manager Xavi Hernandez is confident his club can achieve great things if they continue with what they are doing now.
Barcelona‘s UEFA Champions League match against Benfica ended in a 0-0 draw that saw the Catalans in second place in the group. Despite not being able to pull off an impressive performance, Xavi remains “optimistic” about winning the succeeding games in the prestigious tournament, having been satisfied with his team's camaraderie.
“What makes me most optimistic is seeing the team playing in this way,” Xavi said postgame via ESPN. “Playing like this we can compete with anyone. Seeing what I’ve seen, we can go to Munich and win. The positive news is we still depend on ourselves.”
“We were the better side,” he assessed. “It was a good game. If we had just scored one goal it would have been a great game. In the end, it’s a point that feels like much less.”
Though happy with how things have been playing out thus far, Xavi went on to emphasize the need for Barcelona to score goals.
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“Being positive, I think we played well. The idea is catching on. We just lacked that goal,” the Barcelona legend explained. “This is the Barca we want, but we must be more clinical. That’s one goal in two games — and that was a penalty.”
“We have to restore the confidence of the players that score goals,” he added. “I’m not just talking about the forwards, either, but the midfielders that arrive from deep as well.”
Barcelona certainly needs to beat Bayern Munich in their final group stage game if the club wants to advance to the next round of the Champions League.
