Barcelona supervisor has declared that he’s prioritising La Liga over the Champions League this season, regardless of their sizable drawback domestically. The Blaugrana rested and rotated for European video games earlier within the season, and are seven factors behind Actual Madrid in La Liga, however the Germanc coach mentioned that league triumph remains to be their precedence.
With hypothesis amping up over , it was no suprise that Flick was requested whether or not the squad was settled for the remainder of the season.
“You realize it higher than me, it’s not straightforward for the membership. I’ve all the time mentioned that I’m proud of my gamers, with the staff there’s, with the ambiance. We are able to obtain quite a lot of success with this staff.”
As well as, there’s hypothesis over , with simply 18 months left on his present deal.
“I’m centered on the present state of affairs. Deco is doing his job. Frenkie is performing nicely as a 6, as an 8, and he’s doing nicely in these video games.”
It was put to Flick that if he needed to gamble his personal property on Barcelona being profitable in La Liga or the Champions League, which might he go for, at which he smiled and reminded that coaches usually are not allowed to guess.
“For me La Liga is an important factor. On the finish of the 12 months we are going to consider. The Champions League, I’ve mentioned it earlier than, will be the most tough event to win. It is rather necessary to beat Atalanta to complete in the easiest way, being second on this section.”
Barcelona do have a slim likelihood of ending high of the group section, however would require leaders Liverpoool to lose to PSV Eindhoven, having been excellent to date. If the Blaugrana do end second, then they’d be seeded on the alternative facet of the draw to Liverpool, however they’ve already secured passage to the Spherical of 16, skipping the play-off spherical.