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Hansi Flick mentioned he was going to have examine on his coronary heart after he watched Barcelona come again from 2-0 all the way down to beat Actual Madrid 4-3 in a wild, chaotic recreation that just about secured a league and cup double in his first season.
After two Kylian Mbappé objectives inside quarter-hour Barcelona have been trailing, their grip on the title seeming to loosen, their nice rival momentarily transferring inside some extent on the prime of the desk, however objectives from Eric García and Lamine Yamal and two from Raphinha put them forward earlier than half-time.
Though Mbappé accomplished his hat-trick, each groups had probabilities, and the Madrid debutant Victor Muñoz missed a wonderful last-minute likelihood to equalise, Barcelona ultimately received their fourth clásico of the season.
That took them seven factors clear with simply 9 in play, however Flick insisted: “We don’t really feel like champions.” He additionally mentioned his workforce must enhance defensively. Barcelona had additionally conceded three in each legs of their Champions League semi ultimate towards Inter.
“I’m going to must examine my coronary heart,” the Barcelona coach mentioned. “It will be straightforward to say that the tactic is to attain 4 in the event that they rating three. Now we have to enhance so much defensively. Once we press, it’s effective. However this [can] get sophisticated after we make errors.
“It will be good to win three titles and solely want one victory now. [But] that is soccer. We’re in place however you by no means know what can occur. We nonetheless want three factors and each opponent desires to beat us.”
Requested if Barcelona have been the most effective workforce to look at in soccer, having taken their objectives tally in La Liga to 95, Flick replied: “It’s important to be those to say that; I endure so much. I hope we are able to do issues higher and make fewer errors. I don’t know if [I] was nervous on the finish; there was a variety of emotion.
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“It’s not at all times so enjoyable. However I’m very proud of what we do. We wish to enhance in each recreation and now we have a variety of potential. The perspective of the workforce is implausible.”
