Hans-Dieter Flick

[CatalinR10]

Sir Hans Dieter Flick , first of his name , first in the game

Undefeated.

 

[RedxMAK]

STOOP WHININGGGG!!!!

It's Heavy Metal Football or bust. This is how we roll.
Get used to it, or you get off the next station.

We no playing no bitchass mid line. Its highline up at the opponents half.
Heck, if Araujo can reach the oppo penalty box in two strides, its even better.

Every squad player in this team will have 6+ goals this season. Even Joan Garcia.
THIS IS THE WAY.

Exactly bro. Barcelona has been reinvented by this legend and we shouldn’t lose this opportunity. If we won 3/4 trophies last season and were minutes away from the UCL final it shows you that this is working and it is not a mistake to play the high line.

 

[Messigician]

and were minutes away from the UCL

This showed why it wasn’t working

 

[Gnidrologist]

Barca hasn't sniffed butt end of the CL final stages for 10 years before Flick.

 

[FCBarca]

Curious how Virgili will be managed because there’s a talent there

 

[draconifire]

This showed why it wasn’t working

With previous managers, we got embarrassed in every knockout stage.

You are just a hater.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

With all due respect to Flick, something has to change with this defense…
A couple of months ago, he said the team didn’t have time to properly organize the defense because of the tight schedule. And then he added that they would pay a lot of attention to the defense in the summer, during preseason, etc.
But now the new season has started… and we’re still allowing way too many chances at our own goal. Something needs to change.

Teams started adjusting at the end of last season. He needs to make some changes for sure.

 

[Fati_Future_BallonDor]

Hansi gave the players 2 days off:

As Barça announced on Sunday, the entire team will now have two days off. The day after the 3-2 win, the focus was on recovery, while players who did not play or played only a few minutes trained as normal.

Now, however, everyone has time off, with training resuming on Wednesday, which also marks the start of preparations for the away game at Rayo Vallecano. The Blaugrana will be in Madrid on Sunday (9:30 p.m.), and if the game had been scheduled for Saturday, Flick would certainly not have given the team this two-day break.

 

[Barcaman]

Have to say, I expected a bit of a smoother football after entire team had a full, uninterrupted, pre-season.
Team took a lax attitude against Mallorca and had to come back against Levante.

 

[serghei]

Have to say, I expected a bit of a smoother football after entire team had a full, uninterrupted, pre-season.
Team took a lax attitude against Mallorca and had to come back against Levante.

Not a great start for me also.

 

[HeadElastico]

More than anything, we'd have expected some kind of improvement or refinement of the offside trap strategy, but the first two games seemed to indicate no change at all. Needlessly high with 0 pressure on the ball.

I, by and large, don't mind the offside strategy. It really puts teams in a weird spot when used intelligently and not all the time. It would be less easy to prepare for it when you don't know exactly what moments we are going to employ it. When you keep the exact same strategy over and over you do make it much easier for even lesser teams to go do a fifa R1 triangle goal.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

More than anything, we'd have expected some kind of improvement or refinement of the offside trap strategy, but the first two games seemed to indicate no change at all. Needlessly high with 0 pressure on the ball.

I, by and large, don't mind the offside strategy. It really puts teams in a weird spot when used intelligently and not all the time. It would be less easy to prepare for it when you don't know exactly what moments we are going to employ it. When you keep the exact same strategy over and over you do make it much easier for even lesser teams to go do a fifa R1 triangle goal.

And not sure if Araujo is up for this type of game plan. Martinez had the smarts, but even he was running on fumes at the end of the season. Araujo will get hurt running so much up and down anyway.

We need a miracle for our CBs to stay healthy for the whole season. Christensen and Araujo needs to stay healthy.

 

[jairzinho]

Garcia and Araujo were the main culprits for the trap not working against Levante.

 

[BusiTheKing]

A thing that has gone under the radar is the disappearance of counter attacks from our game. Was a big part of our winning strategy for Flicks first six months, then gradually just went away. Wonder what happened.

 

[Andresito]

Hansi Flick wants a Barça even stronger than last season, and his plan is to make full use of the squad’s depth. In the first two league games he’s already used 19 outfield players. @sergisoleMD