18 February 2018
Previous Barcelona star Xavi did not keep down in his appraisal of Paris Saint-Germain's annihilation at the Santiago Bernabeu, depicting the 3-1 Champions League misfortune to Real Madrid as a "bad form".
European titleholders Madrid scored twice in the last seven minutes to take charge of the last-16 tie after Wednesday's opening leg in the Spanish capital.
PSG broke the gridlock on account of Adrien Rabiot in the 33rd-minute before Cristiano Ronaldo changed over a punishment on the stroke of half-time.
The French guests controlled procedures in the second half yet breathtakingly crumbled amid the end organizes as Ronaldo and Marcelo sentenced PSG to a two-objective thrashing.
Pondering the outcome, Xavi – now playing for Al Sadd in Qatar – was not as much as awed with Madrid's execution against the Ligue 1 pioneers.
"Madrid have something," Xavi disclosed to So Foot. "Against them, you can never lose your shot, else they will rebuff you, yet the most exceedingly terrible thing is that they hurt the adversary with nothing.
"A counterattack was sufficient to take the triumph... F***
"You nearly believe it's a shamefulness that PSG lost by such a major edge since it was a diversion that ought to have finished 1-1, 2-2 or 2-1 for PSG."
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"It's baffling, Real Madrid didn't play, yet at the same time won..." Xavi proceeded. "I saw the communicate on Spanish TV with Valdano and he said something genuine.
"In this match, there were a few stages, altogether different from each other, and there was a minute in which PSG commanded unmistakably.
"Amid those attack minutes in the Madrid territory, it was at that exact minute that PSG ought to have scored the second."
Xavi included: "Were Madrid better than PSG? For me, no, however they couldn't care less in the event that they are prevalent, in the event that they command or are overwhelmed.
"Their theory is basically to win. That is the thing that makes them so hard to play against in the [Estadio Santiago] Bernabeu, for instance. PSG played like Barca."
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