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After making a brilliant start to his tenure as FC Barcelona manager in La Liga, Hansi Flick will be hoping to carry that momentum forward into the UEFA Champions League.
Barcelona will kickstart their European campaign tomorrow when they take on AS Monaco at Stade Louis II, aiming to extend their winning start to the season to six games.
On the eve of the match, manager Hansi Flick attended the customary press conference during which he discussed the club’s objectives and the injuries plaguing the squad, among other topics.
Looking back at the strong start that his Barcelona team have made to the season, Flick said:
“I think our idea when we started here was to play well. I think we’ve done well and we’ll see how the intensity is, how they press… so far it’s going well.”
Explaining how he has gone about things and how the players have responded to his methods, the German tactician remarked:
“When I arrived I realised that there were players with a lot of quality, with players who were 15 years old and now they are 16, we were incorporating international players and we are seeing more and more.
“We can give them the philosophy of how we want them to play, but in the end it has to happen on the pitch, and the latest results have gone well, they are very stable and this is our key to success for now.”
On the injuries
Barcelona lost in-form new signing Dani Olmo to an injury this past weekend against Girona, with the Spaniard set for a month out. When asked about the plan to replace him in the team, Flick said:
“Dani has his own quality on the ball, in front of goal and the confidence to shoot. We’ll see, I hope we can continue to play at the same level without him.”
Another significant blow that Barcelona suffered this week was losing Fermin Lopez to an injury on the same day he returned to training after recovering from a previous one.
Explaining what went down with the 21-year-old,…
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Author : Michel Durant
Publish date : 2024-09-18 18:21:20
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