It has been an excellent begin to 2025 for Barcelona, who will hope to hold on their kind on the Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan towards Sevilla on Sunday. The gamers that Hansi Flick depends upon in Andalusia will likely be attention-grabbing to notice, provided that there was some adjustments in latest weeks.
Within the final week, Eric Garcia seems to have lifted himself above Ronald Araujo within the pecking order in central defence – having been chosen to start out the midweek Copa del Rey victory over Valencia. In his pre-match press convention (by way of MD), Flick spoke glowingly on the 24-year-old, who had been linked with a transfer away in January.
“Eric Garcia is match and dealing properly. As a 6 he does very properly. Relying on the circumstances of every opponent, he’s very versatile. He’s glad and so are we. We’ll see how the season goes. He did an excellent job in the previous few video games.”
Flick additionally spoke on Ansu Fati, who rejected a transfer away from Barcelona throughout the winter switch window regardless of having no clear probability of enjoying minutes between now and the tip of the season.
“It’s the plan we’ve got with Ansu Fati. Typically you speak to the coach and some days later you see what occurs. Ter Stegen, Bernal and Christensen are injured. The remainder are 21 gamers out there, Ansu is enhancing and tomorrow we’ll see the record in line with the choices.”
Lastly, Flick supplied an replace on Marc-Andre Ter Stegen, who has been out since struggling a severe knee harm again in September. Latest studies have urged that the German goalkeeper may very well be out there earlier than the tip of the season.
“Ter Stegen’s situation is non-public data like every thing I find out about with medical doctors. He has already began working, and it is step one. Every thing is heading in the right direction, he has improved quite a bit and we’re very glad.”