{"id":10340,"date":"2023-12-11T11:37:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T11:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=10340"},"modified":"2023-12-11T11:37:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T11:37:53","slug":"barcelona-played-well-despite-loss-against-girona-xavi-insists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/12\/11\/barcelona-played-well-despite-loss-against-girona-xavi-insists\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona Played Well Despite Loss Against Girona, Xavi Insists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>Barcelona manager Xavi insists his side &#8220;played well&#8221; despite losing 4-2 at home to Girona in a crunch game at the top of LaLiga.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>Victory means the visitors&#8217; stunning title charge remains on track, with a seven-point lead over the Catalans in fourth and a two-point advantage over Real Madrid in second.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>But Xavi was not alarmed, claiming the game was won on small margins.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>He said: &#8220;I think the match was even, it was decided by details.<\/p>\n<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>&#8220;We lacked effectiveness but we played well in the game.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>&#8220;We shot 30 times, we could have equalised at 3-3. Girona&#8217;s plan was very courageous and they were more efficient.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>&#8220;The match was equal. If Barcelona won, we would say it was fair. We had little effectiveness and mistakes in defence affected us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona manager Xavi insists his side &#8220;played well&#8221; despite losing 4-2 at home to Girona in a crunch game at the top of LaLiga. Victory means the visitors&#8217; stunning title charge remains on track, with a seven-point lead over the Catalans in fourth and a two-point advantage over Real Madrid in second. But Xavi was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":10341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[408],"class_list":["post-10340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-barcelona"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10350,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10340\/revisions\/10350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}