It is not yet clear what the La Ceramica administration did before the Villarreal match with Barcelona in the Spanish League last Saturday, which ended with the Catalan winning by three goals to one.
The stadium placed the image of Ronald Koeman with Barcelona’s starting line-up for the match on the giant screen of La Ceramica, despite the dismissal of the Dutch coach from the Blaugrana training last month.
And according to what was revealed by the newspaper “Sport”, this matter led to the ridicule of a large number of the fans present at the stadium, while others considered it an insult to the new coach, Xavi Hernandez.
This event joins a series of unfortunate incidents in the match between Barcelona and Villarreal, after Xavi quarreled himself with Emery, the submarine coach, and the police separated the members of the two teams in the locker room.
Xavi was playing his second match in the Spanish league with Barcelona after beating Espanyol with a clean goal at Camp Nou last week, and also played a match against Benfica in the Champions League after that, which makes the incident a little strange.
What increases the strangeness of Villarreal’s technical error is that Koeman was sacked after the Rayo Vallecano match, and Serge Barjoan took over the leadership temporarily for two more matches, meaning that the Dutchman was away for a while, it is supposed to be forgotten and not revived again.
Either way, it was Xavi Hernandez, who said after the match with respect to the champions that his team was “lucky” to win this match.