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As Osasuna get set to tackle FC Barcelona tonight at Montjuic in La Liga, their membership legend, Jan City, has heaped reward on his compatriots and Blaugrana stars Robert Lewandowski and Wojciech Szczesny.
City, a former striker, performed for Osasuna between 1989 and 1994, together with his most memorable second coming in a sport in opposition to Actual Madrid as he scored a hat-trick in a 4-0 win on the Santiago Bernabeu in 1990.
The 62-year-old spoke to COPE (h/t Mundo Deportivo) forward of tonight’s La Liga showdown between his former membership and Barcelona.
Reward for Lewandowski, Szczesny
In the course of the interview, City spoke extremely of his fellow Polish footballers, Lewandowski and Szczesny, hailing their influence at Barcelona.
Relating to the Barcelona No. 9, the 62-year-old remarked: “I’ve all the time mentioned, even earlier than he got here to Barcelona, that if Lewandowski will get possibilities, he will certainly rating.”
“He’s doing what the workforce and the coach anticipated of a participant like him. It’s no coincidence, he’s fulfilling his function.”
Making a distinction for Barcelona. (Photograph by Florencia Tan Jun/Getty Photographs)
As for Szczesny, who delivered his greatest efficiency for Barcelona in opposition to Benfica in Lisbon, City highlighted his high quality.
“He has all the time been the most effective goalkeepers, that’s the reason he has come to a workforce like Barça. He’s displaying his expertise and quietness,” mentioned the Osasuna legend.
“The one drawback he has is adapting to Barcelona’s excessive defensive position, however that’s only a matter of time. The choice to make him the starter, regardless that Inaki Pena did properly, was the best one,” he added.
On Barcelona vs Osasuna and title possibilities
Commenting on the match between Barcelona and Osasuna, City doesn’t anticipate it to resemble the 4-2 outcome at El Sadar within the first half of the season.
“It is going to be a very totally different sport. Osasuna nearly all the time struggles in Barcelona,” he remarked.
Relating to Barcelona’s possibilities of competing for the titles nonetheless in play – La Liga, the Copa del Rey, and the Champions League – City was optimistic.
“Barcelona have a powerful likelihood in all three competitions they’re nonetheless alive in,” he concluded.
