{"id":1007,"date":"2023-11-08T07:04:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T07:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/champions-league-why-barcelona-lost-to-shakhtar-donetsk-xavi\/"},"modified":"2023-11-08T07:04:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T07:04:51","slug":"champions-league-why-barcelona-lost-to-shakhtar-donetsk-xavi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/champions-league-why-barcelona-lost-to-shakhtar-donetsk-xavi\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: Why Barcelona lost to Shakhtar Donetsk \u2013 Xavi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Barcelona boss, Xavi Hernandez, has explained why his team lost 1-0 against Shakhtar Donetsk in Tuesday\u2019s Champions League tie.<\/p>\n<p>Xavi watched as a first half goal from Danylo Sikan gave Shakhtar Donetsk the victory over Barcelona at Volksparkstadion.<\/p>\n<p>Xavi\u2019s side only managed one shot on target as compared to Shakhtar Donetsk\u2019s four.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting after the game, Xavi said that Barcelona did not play a good game against the host.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, his team made a big mistake against Shakhtar Donetsk.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard told the media (h\/t BarcaBlaugranes): \u201cWe have not played a good game. Nothing has gone as planned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to confirm the classification but it is a clear step backwards. The Champions League demands the highest level but we have not found it. We are angry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could not fail and we have failed. It\u2019s a big mistake on our part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona still top Group H with nine points from four matches.<\/p>\n<p>Champions League: Why Barcelona lost to Shakhtar Donetsk \u2013 Xavi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by WPeMatico<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona boss, Xavi Hernandez, has explained why his team lost 1-0 against Shakhtar Donetsk in Tuesday\u2019s Champions League tie. Xavi&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1725,15,1871,160,1872],"tags":[8,1875,1150,1873,1145,1702,180,1876,201,421,1874],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-champions-league","category-news","category-shakhtar-donetsk","category-sport","category-xavi","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-barcelona","tag-champions","tag-donetsk","tag-league","tag-lost","tag-news","tag-shakhtar","tag-sport","tag-why","tag-xavi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}