Hansi Flick He accepted the defeat without excuses, the first of the league championship that stopped the good streak of seven consecutive victories achieved by the Barça team, the only one that had not yet dropped any points in the championship. Until he visited El Sadar. “You have to accept these defeats. “We haven’t played very well,” admitted the German coach who justified his decision to have made up to five rotations, leaving important players like Lamine Yamal or Raphinha on the bench “I think it is my responsibility to protect the players, because they have been playing for a lot of minutes. But I didn’t expect us to play like this. I have told the team that we have to move forward. We play on Tuesday, Sunday… and we are on the right track.” The coach also wanted to give a lot of value to Tuesday’s match against Young Boys and that is why he made so many changes to the starting eleven. “We have two days to recover. I hope we see the best version of the team.” In this sense he was “positive.” “I think we have to achieve our first victory in the Champions League.”
The Barça coach, speaking to Movistar just after the match in Pamplona, made self-criticism. “We have made a lot of mistakes and they have done very well.” Yes indeed, flick He reproached the referee for not reviewing the action of the second goal in which, inside the locker room, Lucas Torró’s stomp on the Pau Victor at the origin of the play. “Although in the second goal I think there is a foul at the beginning of the action, I am not entirely sure, because I have not been able to see it yet, but it is what I have heard.” Beyond that, the coach did not want to take away value from the rival and looked back at his team. “For four goals to be scored against us is too many,” later making it clear that “my job is not to talk to the referees.”
Another controversial action was a possible penalty on Lamine Yamal in the final stretch of the game. “I’m sitting outside and I don’t have good vision. It could have been a foul, but it is the referee who decides, and there is also the VAR. Things are like that and I don’t give it any more importance,” insisted the German, who did not want to judge the work of the referee team.
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flick He changed Lewandowski again when Barça was going for the game, still with 1-2 on the scoreboard. “He also needs rest. It’s like that. Everyone needs rest. He is strong, but every three days we have a match and we do it for his own good,” argued the German Barcelona coach.