Sergi Barjuan says goodbye to Barça in Vigo and hands over the post to Xavi

BARCELONA – Sergi Barjuan will say goodbye this Saturday as interim coach of Barcelona in Vigo with a feeling of “happiness” but without hiding that “when you have a candy like this you don’t like to stop savoring it.”

This is how he feels in the hours before the game against Celta, a guy who returned to the club at the hands of Joan Laporta without being clear about his facet, was unexpectedly appointed coach of the subsidiary and, even more unexpectedly, was put in front of the first team after the dismissal of Ronald Koeman.

“I already knew my role in the club and I am very happy that my hand has been noticed,” he revealed this Friday, solving that he was always clear that his stay was provisional.

“I knew it had an expiration date, but I’m happy. I have the last game left and from then on I will return to Barça B as planned.”

He will return after leading three games, with the satisfaction of having saved a macht point in the Champions League thanks to the hurried victory in Kiev and hoping to close his stage by beating Celta so as not to fall further from the top of the standings, waiting Xavi Hernández to take over and face a highly demanding match.

EMERGENCIES

Requirement because Barça lives installed in the urgency of the results to a greater extent than the personality itself that it wants to give to the team’s game. With Sergi the defense has advanced, the game has been reinstated at the ends and the position and the combination have been insisted upon. The expected idyllic image of the best Barcelona has not been seen, by far, but tics have been recovered that in the immediate future should be part of the day to day.

It happens that the Barça team has lost scoring capacity in such an alarming way (38 goals and 12 assists from Messi, 20 and 13 from Griezmann last season) that without securing the defensive plot it is their lack of success against the opposing goal that affects them Mainly and if to this is added the amount of injuries suffered in the squad, it is not difficult to understand his situation in the league classification.

Barça will have to play in Vigo without Dembélé, Dest, Piqué, Sergi Roberto, Braithwaite, Agüero and Pedri, as well as substitute goalkeeper Neto who stayed in Barcelona with a fever. All this will cause Sergi to have to make an eleven of circumstances, again supported by the young people, trusting in Ansu’s good run

Fati and delivered at the end of a challenge solved in the best way awaiting better times.

As of Tuesday, Barça will be Xavi’s Barça. A new era will begin … With the hope that Sergi has left him, at least on the scoreboard, a thread of hope.