BARCELONA, 2 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The coach of FC Barcelona, Hansi Flick, assured that they deserved to win 5-0 against Young Boys on the second day of the Champions League Phase, in Montjuïc, in the best possible way to regain confidence after the defeats in Monaco and Pamplona, and celebrated the return after five months of injury and recovery of Dutch midfielder Frenkie de Jong.
“It was important to add these 3 points, to win and with this 5-0 we deserved it. We have seen, at the beginning, that with a little more confidence, after the first goal, everything is easier. And the confidence has returned, we have to continue like this in the next matches, and in this way we will play well prepared for the next ‘Champions’ duel,” he said at a press conference.
A win that can help in the future to resolve ties on points in this League Phase. “The team’s idea is always to attack and score. In the last 10 minutes I would have liked to save a little more strength, but this is the team’s way of playing and also the way we like to play. Right now I am very satisfied how we played,” he said.
“If the team stays together like until now, and if we work well, I think this team will do great things. When you are good in defense and press high, when you achieve it, you have a good feeling and we are a team that shows that things are “They are doing well. We are working hard,” he added.
“Our objective is to be better in each game and to improve more and more. And it has been seen today. There are things to improve, we have potential, and our job as a coaching staff is to do so. There is a desire to learn things, to do better and do it game by game. At the end of the year, there will be very good and interesting opponents, against whom we always like to play, and we will have to offer maximum performance,” Flick commented.
He celebrated the return of Frenkie de Jong, who had just over a quarter of an hour of play. “For Frenkie, today was a very important step forward to return to play after such a long injury, to put the shirt back on. He needs some time but I think he has done a lot, he has run perhaps too much but he has been good to start to have these first sensations. A great first step,” he acknowledged.
“The season is very long, we know that things can change. Like Marc-André’s injury. Things can happen quickly, we hope Fermín arrives at the end of October, maybe also Gavi. I’m looking forward to it, because you can see his quality It is important that everyone can play again, that they feel like it. And when we have more players, perhaps we will have more options to distribute the load of games,” he noted about the possible return of more injured players.
As for Lamine Yamal’s visible disappointment at being substituted, he downplayed it. “It is part of the whole. There is not just one game, there is more than one game, and Lamine has had a lot of minutes and I think that after playing so much, he can change. The same thing has happened to Robert, he also wanted to play more, but that’s it,” he noted.
“There were a few minutes until Frenkie was ready, we wanted to make Pedri rest and we thought about putting Ansu Fati there for a few minutes until Frenkie came on. It was the planned plan, although we did it a little later,” he commented on why he put Ansu Fati to make him play inside, and not as a forward.