Ansu Fati's tears and Xavi's bad omens

• Chronicle Athletic gobbles up Barcelona in extra time

• Picture The crosses of eighths

The San Mamés match is going to be expensive for Barça. It is not just the fact that they have run out of options to fight for another title, eight days after falling in the semifinals of the Super Cup against Real Madrid. Again, there was an extension, but the image did not even come close to the one shown in Saudi Arabia. And, what is worse,

was this time the protagonist in negative. His tears, when he was substituted in the first part of extra time, after noticing muscle discomfort, suggest that he will have to stop again due to what would be his fourth injury this year. According to the club in a statement, he suffers from

and will have to undergo more tests to find out the exact extent of his ailment.

Xavi

, as soon as the game was over, didn't exactly have good omens regarding the young Barça striker.

"The

thing doesn't seem important, but we'll see what happens with Ansu. He was very affected", confessed the Barça coach in statements to Barça TV.

The coach would add later, already in the San Mamés press room, that

and

also finished the match with discomfort.

"The elimination takes a heavy toll on us, with injured players, and emotionally it leaves us touched, but we have to recover because we have another war on Sunday in Vitoria," insisted the coach, who avoided entering into controversy over the penalty that, in the end, He gave victory to Athletic.

"We have two more wars left"

"I'm not going to value that, don't waste time. I'm not going to value the referee's work, I value mine, that of the team. I don't gain anything by evaluating the play," he settled. Nor, in this case, did he want to delve into the controversy unleashed by the decision to leave

out of the game, who does not seem to have precisely the intention of renewing his contract. "I don't think it has affected him. He is an important footballer for us, but it is a decision of the club and ours as well. We are not going to make unilateral decisions. It is a club issue, without more," stressed the Barcelona coach. In his opinion, in addition, the team is also lacking luck at specific times.

"

. To do it, I know of no other way than to work and continue to be brave. We still have the League and the Europa League, we have to recover mentally. It's a hard blow, because they are two titles lost in one week, but there is no other", sentenced the Barça coach, who avoided talking about failure at all times.

"I don't like the word failure. It has been tried and, if it is a failure, let it serve as a lesson. We have two more wars left and we have to fight until the end. Athletic, in many moments, has beaten us by intensity" , settled.

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