Is this a small wind of crisis that is starting to blow over Barcelona? After two poor results in La Liga – a 1-0 defeat against Real Sociedad then a 1-1 against Celta – the Blaugranas have fallen back to earth a little, having been on cloud nine after having humiliated Bayern Munich and Real Madrid, among others. Against the Galicians, we saw a fairly fragile Barça, makers of unusual errors so far, and with a blatant lack of ideas with the ball.
If the Catalan media do not yet seem to be completely worried, the players of the squad and Hansi Flick received their first criticisms of the season this weekend. Rather lenient so far, the Barcelona newspapers have had to be a little more sharp and sarcastic in their analyses. And if there is one who did not hesitate to destroy all these beautiful people, it was Hansi Flick himself. “ We really had a bad match. We have to be honest. We made a lot of mistakes, including in the first half, we didn’t have confidence with the ball. We didn’t play our usual football. We were lucky on certain actions and we managed to take a point at the end. We have to react, it can’t happen again”he said after the match.
Hansi Flick wants to shake up his locker room
It must be said that, as indicated Mundo Deportivothe former Bayern player wants to avoid entering into a negative dynamic. He let out a big shout in the locker room, and will be stricter and more severe with his players in the weeks to come. Among the main criticisms made by the German tactician to his troops, we find a major lack of intensity. He finds that his players are less effective in pressing and recovering the ball than during the first weeks of competition.
Hansi Flick also believes that his team has lost certain automatisms with the ball, and that they no longer bring the ball out so easily from the rearguard, which causes a less fluid and less dynamic game. “Hansi Flick took out the whip”goes so far as to write Mundo Deportivoemphasizing the German’s desire to be pro-active and not let the situation get worse. Facing Brest in the middle of the week, Raphinha’s gang knows what they have to do…
