Barcelona boss Hansi Flick might solely decide one fault of their 7-1 La Liga dwelling win over Valencia.
La Blaurgana adopted up their 5-4 UEFA Champions League win over Benfica with a goal-filled night time in Catalonia.
After sealing their spot within the Champions League final 16, Barcelona are actually firmly targeted on home issues within the coming weeks, as Flick rotated his crew towards Los Che.
One of many gamers to maintain their place from the journey to Lisbon was Wojciech Szczesny regardless of Flick’s earlier feedback on his position.
The previous Bayern Munich boss had indicated his plan was to start out Szczesny in European motion with Inaki Pena remaining as his league No.1.
That plan was modified towards Valencia, in a significant pre-game shock, after a rocky night time at Benfica.
Szczesny conceded a penalty, and clattered into Alejandro Balde to permit one other aim, however Flick caught with him this weekend.
The veteran shot stopper was saved by VAR towards Valencia, after giving freely one other rash penalty, however Flick will hold religion with him for now.
“We wanted gamers with recent legs. It’s unimaginable how they performed, everybody was concerned,” he mentioned at full time.
“We haven’t given up but on Tek [Szczesny] but, he’s essential. I perceive for Iñaki Peña the scenario shouldn’t be the very best, however we determined to start out Szczesny tonight after an inner assembly.”
With a spot within the subsequent spherical of the Champions League already assured, Szczesny ought to hold his spot in between the posts towards Atalanta in midweek, however the true query will concentrate on Alaves at dwelling subsequent weekend.
Pena had began the final 14 successive league video games previous to Flick’s name to go together with Szczesny, following Marc-Andre ter Stegen’s season-ending harm, however the scenario has now modified and he might want to battle to persuade the supervisor over his beginning credentials.