Barcelona coach Hansi Flick warned his crew they have to cease making errors forward of the Champions League conflict with French aspect Brest on Tuesday.
The Spanish league leaders want to bounce again from defeat at Actual Sociedad and a draw at Celta Vigo of their final two outings.
Barcelona let a two-goal lead slip within the closing phases towards Celta on Saturday and Flick stated his younger crew, which has defeated Bayern Munich in Europe and rivals Actual Madrid in La Liga, wanted to take one other step ahead.
“It is about eliminating the errors, that is essential,” Flick advised a information convention Monday.
“We now have loads of issues to do higher with the ball and that is the main focus.”
The German coach stated Barcelona ought to have defended higher after taking place to 10 males towards Celta Vigo when Marc Casado was despatched off, to guard their two-goal benefit.
“We now have a younger crew, I believe it is the youngest crew in La Liga. It isn’t all the time a freeway, the place you go at excessive velocity, you need to take care in some conditions,” continued the coach.
“We now have to be taught that — after we lead 2-0, with the crimson card now we have to defend significantly better than we did.”
Barcelona are sixth within the Champions League desk with three wins and one defeat from 4 matches, however Tuesday’s guests Brest are one level forward of them in fourth, regardless of sitting twelfth in Ligue 1.
Brest scored an attention-grabbing 4-0 win at Salzburg amongst different constructive outcomes and the go to to face Barcelona offers them the prospect to take an enormous scalp.
“They’re doing actually good, they deserve their 10 factors and it was good how they performed towards Salzburg,” stated Flick.
“They’re in a circulate within the Champions League, they battle a bit within the league. They seem to be a good crew.”
Barcelona can be with out teenage winger Lamine Yamal, nonetheless recovering from an ankle damage, whereas Flick stated left-back Alejandro Balde can be not match sufficient to start out.
Barcelona defender Inigo Martinez additionally confirmed his frustration with the crew letting their lead at Celta slip.
“It was exhausting to digest, it was a recreation we had beneath management to some extent — we let essential factors get away from us,” Martinez advised reporters.
“Bodily we have a really tough opponent forward of us, they’re doing very properly within the Champions League.
“Tomorrow if we come out relaxed it may value us dearly.”
The 33-year-old centre-back stated if Barcelona had been at their finest, even properly ready opponents would battle to beat them.
“Opponents clearly research Barca video games and analyse them, as we do with our opponents,” he continued.
“It is all about how we press and our depth. If our press is nice it’s extremely tough to beat us.”
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