Xavi Hernández, during the press conference prior to the match against Alavés. ” />Xavi Hernández, during the press conference prior to the match against Alavés. /
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The Barça coach reveals that “on Monday there will be another meeting with his family and the doctors” to decide whether the young striker is operated on or not and assures that “planning will be done so that he does not injure himself again”
«Ansu Fati is very affected. On Monday there will be another meeting with his family and the doctors. Dr. Pruna told me that he was ready for half an hour (against Athletic in the round of 16 of the Cup) and the extension upset our plans. We will make a plan so that you do not get injured again. We are going to make a very exclusive recovery so that it does not happen again, “Xavi Hernández guaranteed this Saturday after the muscle relapse in the left thigh of the young Barça striker who will have him out for at least a month and a half, and that could force him to go through the operating room again. “He has to decide,” said the Barça coach about an operation on the Spanish winger of Guinean origin.
“We are frustrated by Ansu Fati’s injury. We have too many setbacks. It’s very hard for everyone”, acknowledged Xavi, for whom at such a difficult moment for the 19-year-old footballer “the best thing is to recover him mentally and give him love”. “He is an impressive player. We are all sad, but he is the main loser, “lamented the Barça coach, who also sees the continuity of Ousmane Dembélé as practically impossible and insisted that the future of the French winger “depends on him.”
Xavi reiterated that “Dembélé has to decide on his renewal.” “Nothing changes. You know what’s up. He trains well and is calm, but he knows his situation. I have already been very clear. There is no other alternative, “added the Catalan coach, insisting that the Frenchman has no other way than to accept Barcelona’s renewal offer or he will not play for the culé team again.
The Tarrasa coach also wanted to defend veterans Busquets, Piqué and Jordi Alba from criticism. “It used to happen to me too. When things don’t go well, the shots go to the sacred cows and they have to understand that. The commitment of the veterans is spectacular, unquestionable, but now it depends on performance. Until recently we did not have many alternatives. Now we are recovering troops and everything will be based on performance”, commented who for this Sunday, against Alavés, expects “a match very similar to the one that Athletic proposed in San Mamés in the Cup”. «Athletic beat us by intensity and courage, two values that cannot be missing and were missing, and that is what hurts the most. San Mamés is that, and Mendizorroza is going to be very similar”, he ventured.
