FC Barcelona will play its late Liga match against Osasuna tonight. A meeting of the 27th day which was to be played at the beginning of the month, but which had been postponed following the death of the doctor of the Catalan stable Carles Miñarro. The opportunity to take 3 points ahead of Real Madrid at the head of the Liga. But this meeting particularly annoys Hansi Flick, however calm so far. A first stroke of the season for the German coach …
At a press conference on Wednesday, the former Bayern had not hidden and railed against the Liga calendar. “I prefer not to talk about my reaction when I learned that we were going to play this Thursday, it's better not. We can talk about the match of tomorrow, but also that against Leganés (Saturday April 12), before that against Dortmund the following Tuesday. When you play outside at 9 p.m., you come home late then, I'm not happy. When you see how other leagues manage it … you have to protect your teams to have success ”he had launched.
Flick gathered journalists
It must be said that with this match this evening and the one who arrives on Sunday against Girona (4 p.m.), FC Barcelona will not have 72 hours of rest, and it will be the same before the Champions League. A subject of which had already complained Carlo Ancelotti, and who annoys Hansi Flick, who will also have to do without two Sudamerician internationals returned too late tonight: Raphinha and Araujo. As explained El Periodicothe German is particularly irritated and the journalists who cover the news of the Catalan club indicate that they have never seen Hansi Flick like that. Mundo Deportivo Indicates that the coach does not want to fall into victimism, but that he still wanted to send a message.
After his noted press conference, he even brought together several journalists in Off to continue to transmit his discomfort to them, ensuring in particular that in Germany, the organization is better and that we protect the teams that play the Champions League much better. A very rare process and to which Flick had not accustomed the followers of Barça, but which testifies to his anger towards the Liga. Clearly, the German and his counterpart Carlo Ancelotti are in the same boat …
