(Reuters) – Barcelona supervisor Xavi Hernandez urged followers to not jeer winger Ousmane Dembele after the France worldwide was greeted with a refrain of boos on his return to the squad in Sunday’s LaLiga win over Atletico Madrid at Camp Nou.
Barcelona bounced again from a purpose all the way down to beat Atletico 4-2 as they clinically noticed off the champions by scoring 4 targets from solely 4 photographs on track. [L1N2UH0C5]
Dembele has not performed for Barcelona since Jan. 12 after failing to resume his contract, which is ready to run out on the finish of the season.
Barcelona requested him to depart earlier than the January switch window closed, however the 24-year-old was unable to seek out one other membership and can keep on the Catalan membership till the top of the marketing campaign. He was an unused substitute in Sunday’s match.
“The followers had been 10 of 10 and the assist was good all through the sport,” Xavi informed a information convention.
“However I would really like them to assist Ousmane, too. I’d ask them to cease booing him.
“The thought was for him to come back on, however I made a decision on different issues due to the purple card and the best way the sport went,” Xavi mentioned, referring to Dani Alves’ sending-off within the 69th minute.
The win moved Barcelona as much as fourth place on 38 factors from 22 video games, leapfrogging Atletico, who’re two factors adrift in fifth.
(Reporting by Manasi Pathak in Bengaluru; Enhancing by Robert Birsel)
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