Barcelona manager Xavi Hernández spoke to the press ahead of Wednesday’s Champions League group stage finale against Royal Antwerp in Belgium, but the only thing in everyone’s mind was the last game, not the next.
The humbling La Liga defeat at home to leaders Girona was a painful blow to a team that had been in good form and was looking at the Catalan derby as a chance to definitively enter the title race, but the Blaugrana struggled to defend all night and were dominated in the second half en route to a deserved and hurtful loss.