{"id":41014,"date":"2026-06-14T11:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T09:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/xhaka-harsh-after-the-draw-with-qatar-we-have-to-get-down-to-earth-and-take-responsibility\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T11:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T09:55:32","slug":"xhaka-harsh-after-the-draw-with-qatar-we-have-to-get-down-to-earth-and-take-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/xhaka-harsh-after-the-draw-with-qatar-we-have-to-get-down-to-earth-and-take-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Xhaka harsh after the draw with Qatar: We have to get down to earth and take responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/granit-xhaka-1.png\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>The captain of Switzerland, Granit Xhaka, reacted harshly after the 1-1 draw against Qatar in the first match of the World Cup, demanding more responsibility and discipline from his team.<\/p>\n<p>The Albanian midfielder with a Swiss passport expressed his disappointment with the way the team failed to manage the match and take advantage of the opportunities created.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you don&#8217;t use the opportunities in attack, you will suffer them.&#8221; in defense&#8221;, declared Xhaka after the end of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that Switzerland should have shown more prudence in the decisive moments and criticized the lack of organization in some phases of the game, hinting that the players often tried individual solutions instead of team play.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t need to be show people. We have to play as a team and take our responsibilities&#8221;, added the Swiss captain.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the criticism, Xhaka appreciated the performance of the goalkeeper of Qatar, who with some decisive saves kept his team in the game and influenced the final result.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, he called for an immediate reaction in the next matches, stressing that Switzerland must improve if they want to achieve the objectives set in this World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to keep our feet on the ground. Now is the time to act&#8221;, concluded Xhaka.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The captain of Switzerland, Granit Xhaka, reacted harshly after the 1-1 draw against Qatar in the first match of the World Cup, demanding more responsibility and discipline from his team. The Albanian midfielder with a Swiss passport expressed his disappointment with the way the team failed to manage the match and take advantage of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"views":8,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41016,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41014\/revisions\/41016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}