Barcelona beat Red Star (2-5) at the Rajko Mitic in Belgrade to achieve its third victory in the Champions League, consolidate itself at the top of the standings and continue to feed its recovered European prestige. The illusion was Blaugrana. Young and old alike celebrated. The first Iñigo Martínez, awarded the MVP of the game. “The truth is, I’m not used to receiving these awards. This is thanks to the entire team,” said the centre-back, author of the 0-1 scoreline, who received the award for best player of the match.
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Even so, the always demanding central defender pointed out that the team lacked relaxation in the first half. “The game has become a bit difficult for us. After the first goal, we relaxed and the tie came, but in the second half we became ourselves again and went for the game. “We are happy for the victory,” he summarized.
We are very competitive. There is a high performance”
“I agree with that,” said Hansi Flick. “Still, I am very happy and value what we are doing. We played very well with the ball and also defended,” analyzed the coach, who spoke with his pupils at half-time. “I told them that we had to win and that they had to concentrate. “They have achieved it,” he resolved.
Flick believes that the players “have the confidence to maintain this level all season. It is not easy to train because there are many games but the team likes to play soccer and compete against any team. And that is a very good thing. We are very competitive. There is high performance,” he added.
Flick dishes out praise for everyone. Also to Lewandowski, who is on the verge of scoring goal number 100 with the Barça shirt. “I found out and I would have left it longer,” joked the German, who doesn’t care about numbers.
Lewandowski doesn’t seem to care either. “We wanted to score quickly but we played a little slowly in the first half. In the second half we scored four goals because we increased our speed by one point,” said the Polish striker who did score the 700th goal in Barça’s history in the Champions League. “I’m happy. We have played very well. We had everything under control. The rest will come,” he said.
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