When you visit the Bernabéu for the first time with Barça, as happened yesterday to Iñaki Peña, it is plausible to feel some vertigo. When your coach also decides to take the maximum risk to throw the offside line, it is human to suffer even from fear. But Iñaki Peña did not paralyze on his most important night as a Barça goalkeeper and passed the exam with flying colors. His legs didn’t shake when he saw his centre-backs miles away. He withstood Mbappé’s missiles, closed the airspace with sufficiency and kept a clean sheet.
The Barcelona goalkeeper was the first to go through the press room. As calm and confident as he had been throughout the entire night. In his message he praised the group for showing on the most difficult field possible that they can “beat anyone.” “The important objectives are against the best teams in the world. We have shown that we have changed the mentality. The team has improved a lot and the amount of goals we are scoring is outrageous. We have to enjoy it,” he assured.
We are with ‘flow’. “We played well, we won, we scored goals… It’s very good”
Peña recognized that playing with the advanced defense is “one of the demands of coach” Hansi Flick and, despite admitting that “it is a little dangerous to play with so many meters” between the defense and the goal, he acknowledged that he lives it “with peace of mind.” , because it is “the style” of the club.
The goalkeeper admitted that they knew that “this week was going to be key for the League” and described this Sunday’s result as “brutality”, added to last Wednesday’s result in the Champions League against Bayern Munich (4-1).
“The amount of goals we are scoring is outrageous.”
The first to recognize him the prominence he deserves was his coach, Hansi Flick. “I am very happy for him, because he has done very well. How we played has been very important, this gives them more confidence than they already have. Here in Madrid and against these forwards, finishing with a clean sheet is very good. “It has had a fantastic performance,” he praised.
“We are with ‘flow’. We played well, we won, we scored goals… It’s very good to have Pedri, De Jong, Dani Olmo… Fermín has done very well too.” Flick lives his beginning at Barça and in Barcelona on a cloud. “When I started with my team we said that we had to create an environment where players can give their best version. And now the atmosphere and mentality in the team is really impressive,” he celebrated.
It is a little dangerous to play with so many meters but I live it with peace of mind”
It was a night of joy for all Barcelona fans and dedications were everywhere. Lamine Yamal, scorer of a goal, remembered his friends, to whom he promised to show his new lucky braces. “I told my friends that I was going to score and I was going to celebrate. I try to enjoy, when the team is so good everything works out. The defense and Iñaki played a great game”, he also remembered the silent protagonist of the match.
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