{"id":476525,"date":"2024-01-20T23:57:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T03:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=476525"},"modified":"2024-01-20T23:57:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T03:57:03","slug":"xavi-next-2-games-to-define-barcelonas-campaign","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/xavi-next-2-games-to-define-barcelonas-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Xavi: \u2018Next 2 games to define Barcelona\u2019s campaign\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barca boss Xavi Hernandez has claimed he thinks his side\u2019s next 2 matches will define their campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udd0a Xavi: &quot;We are motivated and excited to keep improving, to win games, and to be convincing in our play.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BetisBar%C3%A7a?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BetisBar\u00e7a<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cvvoUfsn1F\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/cvvoUfsn1F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCBarcelona\/status\/1748710620625547742?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Catalan club, who are 8 points behind La Liga leaders Girona and 7 points behind 2<sup>nd<\/sup> placed Real Madrid, will face away from home Real Betis tomorrow before traveling to Bilbao for Wednesday&#8217;s Copa del Rey \u00bc finals vs. Athletic Club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These upcoming matches will mark the campaign, but also if we have positive results with Betis in the league or Athletic for the cup,&#8221; Barcelona&#8217;s head coach claimed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are a rival that we did not want in Copa del Rey, but we will do our best to eliminate them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But 1<sup>st<\/sup>, Betis. Everything in our club is determined in the next several days. It\u2019s always been that way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Xavi added that the club is optimistic and trusts the squad because he lifted 2 trophies with the same players in the past campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barca boss Xavi Hernandez has claimed he thinks his side\u2019s next 2 matches will define their campaign. \ud83d\udd0a Xavi: &quot;We are motivated and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":476526,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17224,17969,19630],"news_category":[137,14235],"gn_keywords":[17560,19631,508],"acf":{"announce":"The Catalan side manager shared that the new few days will define the club\u2019s season.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476528,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476525\/revisions\/476528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476525"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=476525"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=476525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}