Xavi is fortunate that most people only remember how things end.
Against Real Sociedad, his team once again looked disorganized before Ansu Fati came in at the 65th minute and immediately shifted the momentum of the game.
Give credit to the manager for making the impact substitution.
Let’s celebrate and be excited about the great potential that was on display.
But let’s also remain sober and not lose sight of the glaring structural issues that need to be addressed.
For that we need to look at the manager, because Barcelona was once again poor for the majority of this game, and it didn’t look like the right lessons were learned from the Rayo Vallecano anti-climax.