Xavi is not Zidane (match preview)

Xavi is not Zidane. He wasn't as a player and he isn't as a coach. And he will have to do a lot for the opposite. That wake is impossible

We have to understand Barcelona fans: it is very difficult to manage the next step to say goodbye to an extraordinary generation such as Messi, Iniesta, Xavi, Piqué, Puyol, Busquets: all of them at their best at the same time. They live obsessed with finding alchemy, the fifth element, and they immediately enthrone: they do it with Gavi (still very far from being top player), with Pedri (a good footballer who is damaged by so many unnecessary compliments) or with Eric García (the golden ball arrives and Vini is in, and he is not). This is how it happens: then suddenly they are entering the UEL again. And Xavi arrives and says that the Champions League is being cruel. No: the cruel thing, for Barcelona fans, is to believe the story you create. Selling it is fine, when it generates inertia or situations, but believing it, being the coach, is not admissible.

At the start of the season they insisted on saying that Xavi was better than Zidane. And that is challenging the God of Soccer. I am not referring to ZZ, who is undoubtedly a mortal god, touched by angels, but to the very demiurge in chief of these ball matters.

Zidane sees football easy, Xavi suffers too much. Zidane was the absolute reference and leader of World and European champion France, Xavi an extraordinary footballer in a stratospheric environment. In my opinion, one step below the french guy, which is great words in the history of football. As a footballer, I say. As a coach any comparison with Hernández (current, and probably in the future) is rude.

Zidane will not be in the classic. Not on the pitch or on the bench, at least. Although all the inertia that he left remains. In exchange is Ancelotti, who as coach also leaves Xavi in ​​diapers (Xavi and almost anyone)

For the rest, what has already been said all these days: we must burn them. It's necessary. They have to stay shivering, at the level of their economic accounts. Do it, Real Madrid.

And one last piece of advice to Xavi: Zidane knows how to fall gracefully.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHl6RAEXoKQ