It is one of the most striking images of the FC Barcelona in his first competitive matches: a player who has the option of being a goalkeeper, a player who shoots at goal. Since his arrival at the Barça bench, Hansi Flick He repeats over and over again in his press conferences that he wants a team “in which everyone attacks and everyone defends”. It doesn’t seem like a cliché, for show. In the most recent match, the 1-4 victory of Barça in Girona, a long shot from Hector Fort gave rise to one of the Sunday anecdotes. It was the 65th minute and the scoreboard was already 0-4. The ‘Pichichi’ Robert Lewandowski was then the recipient of a joke from Lamine Yamal with his now famous “he has ‘smoked it'”staged after the match by the two youth players.
Already during the first half, the other side, Alexander Baldealso one of the most active offensive players from the beginning at Montilivi, shot wide towards the goal of Paulo GazzanigaBarça finished the match with 20 shots, 9 of them on the Girona goal.
Finishing plays is becoming one of the hallmarks of Barça. Flick. One of the first statements in Barcelona by the former Bayern and German national team coach makes sense then, when the Blaugrana team had not even made its debut in pre-season. A custodian of German football pragmatism, Flick He admitted that he missed “more shots in training”.
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Beyond the 17 goals of Barça in the first days of the League, which ends Fort a counterattack from the edge of the area shows that the message has gotten through.
