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"It [the way Barca win] doesn't worry me at all," Xavi has told the media ahead of Sunday's El Clasico."With all due respect to Cholo [Diego Simeone] and everyone.

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Xavi reacts to Simeone's mocking message for Barca after 3 straight 1-0 wins

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] and everyone... I don't have to convince anyone except my players," the Barca boss added.

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 after the Catalans won 3 straight games 1-0 which is widely considered the Argentine's 'favourite' score.

 said that the way Diego Simeone's team wins games is 'not suitable for big teams'. However, we've already seen Xavi's Barca defending a positive result in similar fashion quite often.

Simeone apparently sends message to Xavi after Barca win 1-0 in 3 straight games

"Nowadays I hear of many tacticians who like the beautiful game and say that winning 1-0 is also beautiful," 

"Lately, I've seen that winning 1-0 is highly valued, and that's not easy. Many teams that now do it have a lot of merit. It requires maximum difficulty and a lot of concentration. I like that many of the teams up there are winning 1-0," the Argentine coach explained.

The 1-0 is considered Simeone's 'favourite' score as he usually dictates pragmatic defence-minded football.

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 style was not the style for big teams," 

"Now he will be able to deploy what he is looking for, what he wants, what he imagines and what he grew up with since his cradle at 

The trademark style of play is sometimes not as important as winning the three points by any means – this seems to be Simeone's idea here.

However, we can't say Xavi is trying to replicate 

 Barca these days. He seems to know his players' abilities are limited. They can't dominate all the games like Guardiola's team used to do – so his tactical style of play is quite flexible depending on who the opposition is.

Xavi reacts to Simeone's mocking message for Barca after 3 straight 1-0 wins

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