“It’s a sad victory after Bernal’s injury”

A very expensive toll, very expensive to win in Vallecas but lose Marc Bernal. The midfielder, who trained at La Masia, suffered a serious injury in added time, which left the Blaugrana coach and the rest of his teammates very “sad”. Regarding the victory, Flick stressed that “we fully deserved to win thanks to a very good second half.”

The Barça coach praised his team’s comeback in Vallecas. Barça went from less to more and the changes made by the German ‘mister’ were decisive. Barça’s second half at Rayo Vallecano’s ground was exciting. Hansi Flick was not overly happy about the third consecutive victory as “This is a sad victory because of Marc Bernal’s injury. He is not well and the dressing room is very affected. He had played a great game and his situation hurts us a lot.”.

Marc Bernal ended up crying in Vallecas due to his possible serious knee injury / SPORT.es

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While the severity of the injury of the youth team player is still to be confirmed, the German coach’s face was a poem and he did not want to reveal whether this situation will change the strategy when it comes to signing: “It’s very early, the game is over now and we have to think carefully and evaluate what we have to do.”.

Ratings of the comeback

In this regard he recalled that “We still have one game left before the international break and we have many options in the squad, but it is not yet time to say anything about it.”. In his pure and hard assessment of the match, Flick was blunt: “We clearly deserved the win as the second half was a lot better and we combined at a very high pace.The former German coach admitted that the start of the match was not as expected: “Our first few minutes were not good, we did not press well and our combination play was not the best.”.

Flick / JAVI FERRANDIZ

Hansi understands that playing on a small pitch like Vallecas is never easy: “In recent years, Barça had problems here because we already knew that it was a very difficult field, if you play at 80% it is not possible to win here, in the second half we improved in all aspects”.

The Dani Olmo effect

On Dani Olmo’s extraordinary debut: “With him on the field we have had more control and better combination play. With him the ball is very safe and he scores close to the area. That is why we signed him, we know his level and today he has already been able to demonstrate it.”.

Dani Olmo made his debut in Vallecas with Barça / LKeynoteUSA

Asked about the three victories achieved by his team with the same result (2-1), Flick positively valued being the only team to add all the points in play, although he did not avoid self-criticism: “When you get nine points in three games you can think that everything is fine but we always have to analyse everything and the clear objective is to improve and for the next game we have to play better.”.

A victory with two very different sides. The joy of the excellent play shown in the second half and the enormous sadness due to the serious injury of a player who had played a splendid match.

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