It has been a troublesome few days for Barcelona, who’ve gone into the worldwide break having suffered consecutive defeats to Paris Saint-Germain and Sevilla. And on the again of those, fingers have been pointed at head coach Hansi Flick.
Flick’s model of play has attracted plenty of plaudits throughout his time as Barcelona supervisor, however recently, it has additionally been criticised – notably regarding the techniques used in opposition to PSG. And one other of these to go together with this has been former Actual Madrid participant Toni Kroos, who spoke on the Catalans throughout his Einfach mal Luppen podcast (through Diario AS).
“Barcelona have one of the vital enticing kinds, if not probably the most enticing in all of Europe, however I believe they take too many dangers.
“On a foul day for Pedri or Lamine or Raphinha, any group can damage them and beat them, you may knock them out of the Champions League. That occurred final season in opposition to Inter, and this season, they may come up in opposition to a group of that kind that knocks them out.
“Ranging from the seventy fifth minute, you discover that everybody is extra fatigued, and also you see them not altering their model to shut the areas. In the event you’re drained and don’t change your method of taking part in, it turns into very apparent how uncovered you’re.”
Does Flick must make massive possibilities to his model of play?
It have to be famous that Barcelona’s gamers have been particularly drained in opposition to PSG and Sevilla, and this contributed to those respective defeats. Flick was with out the likes of Raphinha and Fermin Lopez for each video games, whereas Lamine Yamal was additionally absent for the journey to the Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan on Sunday.
Barcelona’s squad is skinny, with sporting director Deco having been unable to make the specified signings due to the membership’s well-documented monetary issues. This has meant that Flick’s choices are restricted – made extra so by common harm points, so there’s scope to say that these current considerations wouldn’t be current if everybody was obtainable.