Let’s be honest, if Ronald Koeman had employed the tactics that Xavi did at Espanyol, he’d have been slated for it.
Throwing cross after cross into the box and hoping that someone would get a head on it is straight out of the Dutchman’s playbook.
Against an Espanyol team that were there for the taking given their current form, that’s nowhere near good enough.
Xavi might well be the natural heir to Pep, but he has an awful lot to learn on the evidence of what we saw at the RCDE Stadium.
After going ahead so early, the derby was there for the taking, and but for a marginal VAR decision, the Blaugranes might well have taken all three points.