First was that it would not be competitive without many signings because they could not register. Denied, there was no need to incorporate too many new faces. That’s what the Masia is for. Then the speech appeared that it would be difficult with so many injuries. Not at all. He is the leader, even after losing Ter Stegen and Bernal for the entire season. His adaptation and whether his style would match the palate of Barcelona fans were questioned. He got down to work, he didn’t look for excuses, the pace (except in the second half of the derby) is fast-paced and the culé is delighted. He took quick revenge for the recent defeats by Girona and Villarreal. “Yes, but Bayern and Madrid will come,” they said, waiting for the big games. He didn’t feel vertigo. He also beat them. Four goals for the Bavarians and another four for the whites.
One by one, Hansi Flick has been dismantling all the preconceived ideas that loomed over the Barça project. One by one, he has chased away the dark clouds. In one fell swoop, the German coach has cured the complexes that gripped the locker room. In record time, not even three months of competition, the Blaugrana’s mood is different.
In less than three months of competition
With his fun game, with Casadó and Raphinha, and with his advanced defense, he only needs to end the agony of going out to play in the Champions League.
He has settled all the outstanding accounts, except one. With his fun, offensive game, with Casadó as organizer and Raphinha as captain, with a very advanced defense, he only needs to end Barcelona’s agony when they go out to play away from home in the Champions League. It is the last barrier that remains to be jumped, the last wall that remains to be demolished, the only step that has not been taken in the recovery, after two years of falling to the Europa League and an elimination in the first round of the Champions League.
The triumph, with Xavi, last season at the Parc des Princes, paved the way. In Belgrade, he can confirm everything good that was seen in Montjuïc against Young Boys and Bayern. In Monaco, with Eric Garcia’s early expulsion, he was unable to teach it. Even so, despite the Blaugrana’s numerical inferiority, the duel was tied until the 71st minute.
Win the Champions League? In the end, it is better to train hard and not talk so much”
A grand victory in the visit to the small Maracaná – with its capacity reduced by half, 52,000 spectators, compared to the eighty – will serve to lift Flick’s team definitively into the top group of the classification, with those who aspire to be directly in eighths. Red Star, twelve wins in a row in its league, drops out of the Champions League, where it has not yet scored.
However, the German coach does not seem too pressured by that bad streak away from home, but by his own demands, always high. “I don’t care about the past, I care about the present. We can’t always compare. We want to be successful. “Now is our time,” he harangued.
The past does not concern him
The German coach does not seem too pressured by the bad streak away from home, but by his own demands, always high
The defeats against Bayern and Real Madrid have put Flick’s Barça in the showcase of the favorites. But he prefers to put his feet on the ground. We are at the beginning of November and it is only the fourth day, the halfway point of the first phase. Too soon to think about the final at the Allianz Arena in Munich. “Win the Champions League? We still have to work a lot for that. In the end, it is better to train hard and not talk so much,” he recommended to his players. His message could not be clearer: in order to dream and aspire, you have to earn it on the field. In fact, the coach acknowledged that he has not even looked at the classification. “I don’t even know what position we are in. The goal now is to be among the top eight,” he insisted on this phase.
Of course, the great form that the Blaugrana team is going through no longer goes unnoticed by anyone. Nor for Vladan Milojevic, the Serbian coach. “The best team in Europe is coming. “We play against a team that is absolutely at its best in all phases of the game,” he said, analyzing his rival.
The best team in Europe is coming; They are at their best in all facets”
In the small Maracaná, Barcelona won with Maradona and Schuster (1982) and tied with Ronaldo and Figo (1996). Now he appears with Lamine Yamal, Lewandowski, Dani Olmo and Raphinha on a roll to overcome the cold and the last barrier that remains for Flick to cross.
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