Hansi Flick says Barça ‘don’t really feel like champions’ after chaotic clásico

Hansi Flick stated he was once going to have take a look at on his center after he watched Barcelona come again from 2-0 down to overcome Real Madrid 4-3 in a wild, chaotic recreation that almost secured a league and cup double in his first season.

After two Kylian Mbappé targets inside of 15 mins Barcelona have been trailing, their grip at the name seeming to loosen, their nice rival momentarily transferring inside of some extent on the most sensible of the desk, however targets from Eric García and Lamine Yamal and two from Raphinha put them forward ahead of half-time.

Although Mbappé finished his hat-trick, each groups had possibilities, and the Madrid debutant Victor Muñoz neglected an excellent last-minute likelihood to equalise, Barcelona ultimately received their fourth clásico of the season.

That took them seven issues transparent with simply 9 in play, however Flick insisted: “We don’t feel like champions.” He additionally stated his group must give a boost to defensively. Barcelona had additionally conceded 3 in each legs in their Champions League semi ultimate towards Inter.

“I am going to have to check my heart,” the Barcelona trainer stated. “It would be easy to say that the tactic is to score four if they score three. We have to improve a lot defensively. When we press, it is fine. But this [can] get complicated when we make mistakes.

“It would be nice to win three titles and only need one victory now. [But] this is football. We are in a good position but you never know what can happen. We still need three points and every opponent wants to beat us.”

Asked if Barcelona have been the most productive group to look at in soccer, having taken their targets tally in La Liga to 95, Flick responded: “You have to be the ones to say that; I suffer a lot. I hope we can do things better and make fewer errors. I don’t know if [I] was nervous at the end; there was a lot of emotion.

“It’s not always so fun. But I am very happy with what we do. We want to improve in every game and we have a lot of potential. The attitude of the team is fantastic.”