{"id":482716,"date":"2024-05-04T20:55:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T00:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482716"},"modified":"2024-05-04T20:55:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T00:55:07","slug":"xavi-gironas-defeat-tells-the-story-of-our-campaign","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/xavi-gironas-defeat-tells-the-story-of-our-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Xavi: \u2018Girona&#8217;s defeat tells the story of our campaign\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xavi Hern\u00e1ndez claimed today after the disappointing 4-2 loss at Girona that it was emblematic of Barca\u2019s shortcomings this campaign, but added that his players have been the better club in their 4 matches vs. their Catalan opponent and Los Blancos.<\/p>\n<p>Girona\u2019s victory at Montilivi secured their place in the UCL for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time in their history, while also Real Madrid were crowned LaLiga champs after today\u2019s result with 4 matches until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Xavi\u2019s side, however, dropped to 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place in the league, below Girona, and with a 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-position finish and a place in next campaign\u2019s Spanish Super Cup, now not depending on them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m not happy because we have seen both sides of the coin in 1 match,&#8221; Barcelona&#8217;s head coach shared with the media after the defeat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was proud of my players after the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 45 minutes because we pressed well and dominated Girona, which is not easy, perhaps until the hour mark. From there, it&#8217;s the summary of our campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udd35\ud83d\udd34 Xavi: \u201cWe have to change and improve a lot to compete next year. We can\u2019t give away games like this\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgainst Real Madrid and Girona we were better in all four games but we didn\u2019t win\u2026\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PFJUlCxZ50\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/PFJUlCxZ50<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1786853954954952892?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xavi Hern\u00e1ndez claimed today after the disappointing 4-2 loss at Girona that it was emblematic of Barca\u2019s shortcomings this campaign, but added that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482717,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17224,17969,17344],"news_category":[137,14235],"gn_keywords":[17560,19116,508],"acf":{"announce":"Barcelona's manager shared that the loss was emblematic of their 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\/482716"}],"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=482716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482718,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482716\/revisions\/482718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482716"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482716"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}