Thread by @Barca_Buzz

🎙 Xavi in the pre-match press conference ahead of Barcelona vs Inter Milan.

🗣: "We expect an Inter very similar to the one in Milan. They are from the lower block, the middle block, we have alternatives." #FCB

🎙 Xavi continues..

🗣: "We have prepared for them, we have to play like the last 20 minutes we did in Milan. It is a final and we have no margin for error."

🎙 Xavi continues..

🗣: "It's transcendental, we hadn't done our homework and now we have an opportunity to get back together in the group. We're in an awkward situation but we'll give it our all."

🎙 Xavi continues..

🗣: "Our focus should be to attack better. Do double in attack and or in defense in any case. I think that in the first half we did not understand the role of Marcos and Raphinha. We have to be more vertical, more aggressive."

🎙 Xavi on Barca's mentality for the game..

🗣: "Being positive, of course there is pressure and difficulties but we are going to face it being brave, personality, we have no other choice. I try to make the players see it as a final, they are almost sixteenths in this sense"

🎙 Xavi on Camp Nou atmosphere..

🗣: "Since I've been coach they've given us good times, the Camp Nou has to be a cauldron and we're going to work our asses off so that the three points stay at the Camp Nou."

🎙 Xavi on Kounde's availability..

🗣: "We don't count on him except for surprise, for Sunday we will see: he can arrive but it will depend on his feelings. I see him well, training hard, positive, my feeling is that he can reach Sunday."

🎙 Xavi and his message..

🗣: "We must not lower our guard: there is talent, there is a desire for revenge, so we have to give everything so that the victory stays here."

🎙 Xavi on whether he'll take a 1-0 win..

🗣: "No, I want a 2-0. A 2-0 win is better."

🎙 Xavi on what happened against Celta..

🗣: "It is knowing the diagnosis, I think we lower the intention, pressure after loss and Celta is capable of stealing your personality. We know the diagnosis: tomorrow push hard and not lower the intensity."

🎙 Xavi continues..

🗣: "It's a game to be calm, to know how to position yourself, to be calm, you don't have to score in minute one. try not to feel the pressure."

🎙 Xavi continues..

🗣: "I always tell them that the pressure is on me. You have to be patient, but if We attacked like in the second half in Milan, I'm optimistic."

🎙 Xavi continues..

🗣: "For me it's playing well, it's having the ball, attacking but I understand other methodologies. That's why I wasn't satisfied against Celta."

🎙 Xavi on using Pedri and Gavi better..

🗣: "Yes, we have to improve that. We had also found that with individual marking it was difficult for us to find ourselves inside. You have to attack more from the second line, offer yourself more."

🎙 Xavi continues..

🗣: "Our wingers received a lot in the other game, we will try to attack inside and out."

🎙 Xavi continues..

🗣: "It would be a great disappointment but we are going to think positively. That we want to continue being alive. We are in an uncomfortable situation and now we are in an emergency but tomorrow we have to try to fix it."

🎙 Xavi on the pressure on referees..

🗣: "Yes, but that's it. We had a logical outrage but now we're thinking about football. We're not at the level we were a few weeks before. If we improve the level, maybe we won't have to talk about referees."

🎙 Xavi continues..

🗣: "I would like to be a player tomorrow: I would rather be a player than a coach tomorrow. For me it is a very good opportunity: we are motivated and hopeful."

🎙 Xavi on Inter's defensive set up..

🗣: "It will vary little for us. We have a very clear way of attacking so that they feel comfortable. If they change the system, it does not concern us much. We have a clear idea to go out and win tomorrow."

🎙 Xavi on Lewandowski..

🗣: "It was not Lewy's day, it's the team's day. It has to be important, but not just tomorrow, every game. "

🎙 Xavi continues..

🗣: "We have to take a step forward: play more with him, look further ahead so that he doesn't feel comfortable, we've played little with him in recent games."

🎙 Xavi continues..

🗣: "The public is sovereign. We try to help us, that they are positive, I do not think about the whistles. I think that things will turn out well. That they feel proud of the team."

🎙 Xavi on Frenkie..

🗣: "He's fine, he's coming off a small injury, we'll see if he's ready to start or maybe in the second half."

🎙 Xavi on Laporta's presence in training..

🗣: "They hadn't told me that the president was coming. But that's fine: we're a family, and it's good to be united. Tomorrow we need that: the team, the fans, the club are united. We have an opportunity."