{"id":190433,"date":"2021-11-20T17:43:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T17:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/xavi-starts-as-barcelona-coach-by-beating-espanyol"},"modified":"2022-10-14T17:25:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T17:25:26","slug":"xavi-starts-as-barcelona-coach-by-beating-espanyol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/xavi-starts-as-barcelona-coach-by-beating-espanyol","title":{"rendered":"Xavi starts as Barcelona coach by beating Espanyol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 of 8BARCELONA, Spain (AP) &#8212; Xavi Hern&#225;ndez needed a penalty to start his return to Camp Nou as Barcelona coach in winning fashion.Barcelona&#8217;s 1-0 win against Espanyol on Saturday began the way Xavi wanted, with his team dominating the ball like the Spain great had when he joined Lionel Messi and Andr&#233;s Iniesta to forge one of soccer&#8217;s greatest sides as its midfield maestro.But the same problems that had led to the demise of his predecessor soon emerged. Barcelona&#8217;s attack failed to turn its huge advantage in possession into shots on goal other than Memphis Depay&#8217;s second-half penalty, while its defense came apart in the final stretch. Only Espanyol&#8217;s misfiring forwards stopped the Catalan derby from ending in a draw.&#8220;Overall, I am happy, but it is clear that we have to improve,&#8221; Xavi said. &#8220;We are building a new project and these three points in a derby gives us a boost. It was tough because they could have scored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BARCELONA, Spain (AP) &#8212; Xavi Hern&#225;ndez needed a penalty to start his return to Camp Nou as Barcelona coach in winning fashion. Barcelona&#8217;s 1-0 win against Espanyol on Saturday began<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,140],"tags":[142,138,58],"class_list":["post-190433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-soccer","tag-champions-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}