50 up for Hansi Flick as Barcelona conquer Balaidos

Say what you want about Hansi Flick, however the first-team head coach isn’t for turning.

Win, lose or draw, he clearly received’t have his Barça facet taking part in every other means than with the high-risk, high-reward excessive line.

As we noticed once more at Celta, when it doesn’t work and the Blaugranes are so simply uncovered, it appears amateurish.

Nevertheless, within the second half, there was a transparent indication of how nicely it could actually comprise opposition groups when used appropriately.

What must be addressed is the shortage of all 4 defensive gamers pushing ahead on the similar time.

On Sunday night time it was Alejandro Balde taking part in Celta’s gamers onside; in different video games, Ronald Araujo and Jules Kounde have been at fault.

And but, Culers have grown so used to this fashion of working that to see Flick bend to the desire of others simply wouldn’t do.

A part of the enchantment of the excessive line is exactly due to the chance concerned. Lest we overlook that soccer continues to be an leisure enterprise, and, to coin a phrase, “are you not entertained?!”

I assume that the actual problem is that this season it simply isn’t working as easily because it did in 2025/26.

Groups have cottoned on that in the event that they time their runs nicely sufficient, they’ll beat the offside entice and, as a rule, will get a shot away at purpose.

If we return just a few months, exactly this fashion of taking part in was being lauded throughout Europe as we got here inside a hair’s breadth of qualifying for the Champions League remaining.

Though Barça misplaced towards Internazionale, these two semi-finals have been epic and, arguably, two of the perfect and most enjoyable video games to ever be performed at that stage of the competitors.

A number of tweaks right here and there and there’s no motive in anyway why Flick can’t oversee one other second half of the marketing campaign as he did in 2024/25.

Barcelona nonetheless have the gamers to be courageous and execute such a plan, so maybe Culers want to grasp that there might be some bumps within the highway however, finally, this can be a crew primed for fulfillment taking part in in a fashion that some groups wouldn’t even dare take into consideration doing.

That’s intoxicating for a supporter and, frankly, in Flick we belief.

Right here’s to 50 extra edge-of-the-seat encounters…