Barcelona secured one other essential win on Sunday after they beat native rivals RCD Espanyol 3-1 on the Montjuic Stadium in La Liga.
Nevertheless, It was a reasonably show uncommon from Hansi Flick’s Barça because the crew performed two completely different matches within the two halves – A dominant first half the place they scored three targets, and a second half the place they forgot their defensive duties, and misplaced depth and focus.
No room for error
Nevertheless, as reported by SPORT, Hansi Flick needs his Barcelona to not repeat two key errors towards Crvena Zvezda within the UEFA Champions League that they did towards Espanyol.
Within the derby, with much less urgency and with out the eye to element proven within the first half, Barcelona seemed weak within the second interval and as such the supervisor doesn’t need to see his crew repeat these errors on Wednesday.
After every week of most effort, with victories towards Bayern Munich and Actual Madrid, the Barça gamers lowered their tempo after the primary interval as they noticed the derby was settled, and Espanyol gave them a number of scares within the second half.
Flick was not totally happy by Barcelona’s win vs Espanyol. (Picture by Alex Caparros/Getty Photographs)
Flick admitted that he had not appreciated sure features of the second-half efficiency and used Tennis for example.
“In tennis, there’s one thing referred to as unforced errors, which we had right this moment. I’m proud of the victory, though we misplaced focus within the second half. I’ll settle for it right this moment as a result of we received, however we have to type this out by Wednesday,” he emphasised.
“I advised the crew I might settle for the second half as a result of they’ve accomplished nice work till now, however I received’t settle for one thing like this on Wednesday,” he insisted.
Within the second half of the derby, the Barça forwards pressed much less, the midfield stopped flowing, and the excessive defensive position grew to become considerably of an ordeal for the defenders.
Puado took benefit to scale back the deficit, and Espanyol brought on harm, notably down the left flank, by exploiting the area behind the Blaugrana defence.
On Wednesday in Belgrade, Barcelona returns to Champions League motion to face a Crvena Zvezda crew that has been unstoppable of their home league however has struggled in Europe’s premier competitors.
And, Flick expects to see the standard dynamic of this Barcelona facet with out the errors they made on Sunday.