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‘Win over Napoli is one of my best moments as Barca coach’

Updated on: 14 March,2024 07:30 AM IST  |  Barcelona
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The Spanish champions won 3-1 at the Olympic Stadium to seal a 4-2 aggregate win against last year’s Serie A winners, returning to the last eight for the first time since 2020.

‘Win over Napoli is one of my best moments as Barca coach’

Xavi Hernandez

Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez said beating Napoli to reach the Champions League quarter-finals on Tuesday was one of his finest moments in his post. The Spanish champions won 3-1 at the Olympic Stadium to seal a 4-2 aggregate win against last year’s Serie A winners, returning to the last eight for the first time since 2020.


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“We had to be better than Napoli and we were, it’s a more than deserved qualification, it’s one of my best moments as Barcelona coach. There has been a lot of unfair criticism, [that we were] the joke of the Champions League, we had to play with that pressure,” Xavi told a news conference. The coach said he would not change his mind about leaving at the end of the season.


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