Between Xavi and Arteta .. luck serves Barcelona more than Arsenal!

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Small details greatly affect the final product

Every successful experiment needs a boost of luck and cooperation from outside parties to achieve success.

Pep Guardiola's experience with Barcelona was successful in small details in the Champions League semi-final to open the door to a historic hexagon, with Real Madrid Zidane. Small details also stood with the royal to achieve the Champions League 3 times in a row.

And sometimes great experiences that do not achieve much because they collide with external circumstances that did not favor them, just as Klopp suffered with Liverpool due to the presence of Manchester City Guardiola.
External details contribute a lot to the continuation of small victories to give confidence and belief in long-term success, and this is what Xavi Hernandez gets in Barcelona and Mikel Arteta lost with Arsenal.

How luck served Xavi and turned his face to Arteta?

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Looking at the current season, we find that there are many teams that are providing positive results; Real Madrid is competing for the Spanish League and close to the Champions League semi-finals, Manchester City and Liverpool in a race for the Spanish League, as well as providing good levels in Europe.

But among all the teams, Barcelona remains with Xavi and Arsenal with Arteta, the most prominent because they returned from a resounding fall and took positive steps towards the front after many expected a season to be forgotten.

Barcelona was eliminated from the group stage in the Champions League and fell to the European League, as it was suffering in the ninth place and far from the lead with vast differences, so the dream became only to reach the fourth place.

As for Arsenal, it has been suffering for a while and did not provide a strong transfer market for some, and therefore no one expected it to be among the Big Four, with strong teams such as Tottenham, Manchester United and Chelsea, along with the strong start of West Ham, of course, not to mention Liverpool and Manchester City.

But the return of the coaches to the level of performance before the result, made Xavi and Arteta two impressive models this season and are considered special, but the experience of the first differs greatly from the second.

Luck serves Xavi

Barcelona started with Xavi in ​​a fluctuating manner. He did not achieve major victories and appeared with a slight improvement over the Ronald Koeman period. He did not even achieve the most important victory over Benfica to qualify for the Champions League and found himself in the Europa League for the first time in its history.

But the improvement continued, and with the beginning of the year, the Spanish Super Team was bid farewell to Real Madrid, but after a good match, and then exited from the King’s Cup against Athletic Bilbao, but also after submitting an acceptable offer.

The moment of truth came in the Spanish League against Atletico Madrid, to win Barcelona by four, go to the European League and qualify at the expense of Napoli, winning by four also in Italy, and the results began to smile in the face of Xavi.

And the matter reached its climax in the El Clasico at the "Santiago Bernabeu" stadium, to sweep Barcelona's rival by four with clemency.

Barcelona took advantage of the clear decline in the levels of Real Madrid, Atletico and even Seville to seize the victory and in a good way, and with each victory it gets more confidence and the players, the public and the management believe in Xavi Hernandez's ball more and more.

The European participation in the Europa League also had its advantages, as the team did not face strong teams in the champions capable of defeating it with a great result that might return frustration to the Camp Nou, but the competition with relatively fewer teams and in a European championship and winning continuously to make the Blaugrana the first candidate to win the title contributed greatly. Great in refining the character of the players.

By contrast... Arteta

Arsenal's situation is different, although Mikel Arteta took advantage of the decline in Manchester United's level and the recent results of West Ham, to jump to fourth place, but the experience faced many difficulties.

For example, after improving results and winning consecutive matches, Arsenal collided with the Liverpool team to lose with two goals without a response, which brought back some frustration. Then, after improving a little, injuries came to hit the team and then fell in two consecutive losses against Crystal Palace and Brighton.

These successive strikes gradually kill the players’ hope and rethink the club’s position among the rest, which may make the public and the administration deal with the team as incapable of competing with the top league.

Perhaps because the English Premier League is currently stronger than the Spanish League, and the presence of projects that have been going on for some time in Manchester City as well as Liverpool makes the space for a return for a team like Arsenal difficult and takes longer and building character will need to win at least once against an opponent from the big ones.

But in La Liga, and with the decline of the adults, Barcelona found an opportunity to restore confidence and build character, and even the absence of European participation for Arsenal lost his talents the ability to compensate for what they are unable to do in the Premier League in the continental championship.

And in the end, Xavi and Arteta have all the appreciation and respect for what they have done this season,