Barcelona continued their spectacular begin to 2025 with a ruthless 5-0 victory over Valencia within the Copa del Rey quarter-final tie. The Catalans at the moment are into the ultimate 4 of the competitors, the place they’ve joined Atletico Madrid, Actual Madrid and Actual Sociedad – they may discover out their opposition within the subsequent spherical on Wednesday.
As per Diario AS, Hansi Flick expressed his pleasure on the end result, and of his aspect’s efficiency. He additionally saved particular reward for Ferran Torres, who was the hat-trick hero in opposition to his former membership.
“It’s an important victory for us. I’m pleased with the group. We created probabilities and scored objectives from the beginning, and that allowed us to realize our goal. (The variety of objectives that we rating) reveals the starvation that the group has. And that the gamers had been targeted on attempting to attain extra objectives. It’s good to see that.
“It can be crucial that everybody reveals their greatest model. I’m blissful for the gamers as a result of they scored effectively, they performed effectively. I say it once more. We performed very effectively in opposition to Valencia. I’m blissful for Ferran, as a result of he scored a hat-trick. He was out after an harm and has come again effectively.”
One other participant that Flick spoke on was Pedri, who produced one other wonderful efficiency on the Mestalla.
“I can’t say a lot. You may’t evaluate as a result of he’s an incomparable participant. He enjoys soccer and it’s good to look at, wherever he performs he helps the group loads. And he all the time performs for the group. I’m glad he’s been right here for a very long time.”
Flick was additionally blissful together with his Barcelona aspect holding a clear sheet, which had been wanted amid current strain on Wojciech Szczesny.
“I feel his job is to guard the purpose and he has given us stability. At present, he has as soon as once more saved a clear sheet and that’s what we have now.”