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The Manchester City coach, Pep Guardiola, has defended Xavi Hernández and has urged the FC Barcelona players “to take a step forward” to forget the defeat in the final of the Spanish Super Cup against Real Madrid (4-1 ) because “they have quality and they have demonstrated it.” The former Barça player and coach between 2008 and 2012 added that “this is very long” .
“My advice to Barcelona fans? Calm down. It was a final, it was lost… We have to go for another one. This week there is another game. We have to move forward. People must support and at the end of the season what will be decided will be “it must be decided,” commented Pep Guardiola before The Best gala began this Monday in London. The City coach, by the way, has won The Best award for best coach of 2023.
“I give my unconditional support to Xavi and the players, but let the players take a step forward because they have shown that they have level and quality. This is a very long time,” he said.
Guardiola understands that in Barcelona fans “there is a tendency to throw everything up in the air and this business is very complicated, very difficult. They have lost a final, well, very good, we have to congratulate the rival, learn from it and move forward,” he said . commented, in an optimistic key and taking iron from the defeat in the classic.
“It’s easy to blame the coach. The players must step forward. There are no secrets. They are the ones who play. The coach is always blamed. In this business the coach is only useful if you win, we know that. The players must give a step forward. If you really believe the coach, until the end, and one step forward the players, who have quality, have done it a thousand times and will do it again” , concluded the Manchester City coach.
Source: Sport
