Hansi Flick

Maybe the point is to actually keep the team in max rage mode and confidence boost with good victory and securing league. There are lot of these armchair platitudes that many online repeat without much thought or knowledge how things actually work. Resting whenever it seems "less important" is one such.
Another popular one is team that has secured league therefore has advantage in CL. Quite often it's the opposite as team gets complacent, out of shape and out of focus. Fighting in all fronts might be advantageous apart from injuries. Another one that is pure conjecture - younger players learn from older superstars. Maybe some trick and flick, but what else?
 
Simply put, nobody knows shit about fuck. That's mostly true for managers at this level also. Yamal scores a banger and Flick's a genius. Yamal misses by two inches and Flick's an idiot.
Today's football fans have the attention span and memory of a gold fish anyway.
 
Flick now the coach with longest run of Barca homewins in LL in 21st century:
16 games - Flick
15 games - Guardiola
14 games - Valverde

That's a long way from longest run of Barca homewins in LL ever though, which stands at 39 games, achieved in the seasons 57/58 till 60/61 under 4 different coaches.
 
Morado8 said:
Flick now the coach with longest run of Barca homewins in LL in 21st century:
16 games - Flick
15 games - Guardiola
14 games - Valverde

That's a long way from longest run of Barca homewins in LL ever though, which stands at 39 games, achieved in the seasons 57/58 till 60/61 under 4 different coaches.
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Funny thing is if we didn't have that stupid loss to Villarreal at end of last season this run would likely be much longer now

Because from those few losses in December up until Villarreal game, think we won every game at home in LL
 
malvolio said:
Yamal scores a banger and Flick's a genius. Yamal misses by two inches and Flick's an idiot.
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That summarized the majority of Flick's critics. Same goes for any other coach. Too often people evaluate coaches based on player's individual performance, in both directions, good and bad. What can he do, if Araujo or Cubarsi have a brain fart? What can he do, if Rashford or Ferran can't score 5m in front of the goal?

The positioning, the lineup, the subs, ingame coaching, reacting to opponent's tactic, how does the pressing work, or the triangles on the pitch. How fast we're moving the ball forward, how much we run without the ball. How good are the rehearsed passes or set plays? How good do players perform, that were a personal demand from the coach. These are examples the coach should be criticized for.
 
malvolio said:
Simply put, nobody knows shit about fuck. That's mostly true for managers at this level also. Yamal scores a banger and Flick's a genius. Yamal misses by two inches and Flick's an idiot.
Today's football fans have the attention span and memory of a gold fish anyway.
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They know fuck about shit
 
Morado8 said:
Flick now the coach with longest run of Barca homewins in LL in 21st century:
16 games - Flick
15 games - Guardiola
14 games - Valverde

That's a long way from longest run of Barca homewins in LL ever though, which stands at 39 games, achieved in the seasons 57/58 till 60/61 under 4 different coaches.
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Can we make it and actually go 100% at home in the league for the whole season? Don't think we ever did that before, did we?
Celta, Madrid and Betis left. That would be pretty special.

Go all in on Tuesday of course. But if we don't make it, we need to go and at least keep that 100% home record in the league, and possibly even try and go for that 7/7 and reach 100 points too, since those 7 games will be all that is left to play for the team until the end of the season.
 
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Would be great to see us have a bit more control when we're in the lead but there are no Xavi Busquets Iniesta Messi there to hide the ball from opponent. There's only Pedri and de Jong to some extent. And then they were injured and don't think they played 15 matches together.
 
We don't control games even with those two, we might have more possession but rarely control.

That's not flickball at its core.
But I agree I wish we had more control, we have the players who can do it, but it's not our current philosophy?.
 
Barca have dominated Real many times with Frenkie and Pedri running the game and dominating their midfield with Flick

Did same v Atletico away in Cup semi final last year.

Even the Inter tie Barca absolutely dominated ball in middle of park.. but the high line and defensive mistakes happen.

For me the obvious evolution for this team would be a better RB on ball who can get forward and allow Yamal to drift centrally more and not need a second striker at AM and who can help support the other two midfielders more.

Barca ask too much of the deep midfielders and back four at times to give the front four players as much chance as possible to get in and around box.

But the flip side of it is lose the numbers going forward if do that most likely.
 
We simply have to play with a bit more caution in European games. One goal is extremely costly in these type of K.O games.

In the league do you, we have 38 games to make up for any slips in the line.

But in K.O games any lapse cost us too much.

If martin was perfect, we don't get a red today.

If the press & line was better cubarsi doesn't get a red.

See the pattern? Asking your defenders no matter who they are to never make a mistake during a 90 minute game because with our system mistakes leads to 1v1 with the keeper is just not acceptable.

Would have managed the subs better over the two legs too.

But we played well over the two legs.
Shit happens
 
He also needs players on front of defence to be better.

Pedri was poor for 3 of the 4 goals Atleti scored in this tie.

Too much is being asked of him by Flick or himself but looked like thought he was one man midfield on ball tonight.
 
Mister coached an easy qualification. Getting a red card in both legs is downright ridiculous and if someone told me that would happen in QF, no matter the opposition I would say we are out. Teams at this level exploit it

Brutally sabotaged by his own footballers. Cubarsi, Eric Garcia, Martin Rashford, Fermin, Pedri... congrats to you all. I think he deserved better but alright
 
jamrock said:
We don't control games even with those two, we might have more possession but rarely control.

That's not flickball at its core.
But I agree I wish we had more control, we have the players who can do it, but it's not our current philosophy?.
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Yeah mean, demand to play attractive and win trebles with no budget.

Flick is working wonders.
 
JohnN said:
pedri doesn't risk because every lost ball is a goal for the opponent. so he gets passive
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Nobody but Pedri is to be blamed for his performance

His risk taking is not a problem. We have other creators in the team. The real risk taking is constantly dribbling with the ball in middle of the pitch with 3 or 4 players attacking you instead of passing it to someone. You are good on the ball, okay. But calm down, there are other players on the pitch.
 
It is hard to judge and properly estimate Flick in CL. Super risky, gifts so many easy goals, but spectacular to watch. When it will click, we will probably win a CL if he keeps himself motivated and the squad improves.

On the bad side, two inferior sides knocked him out twice in 2 seasons.
 
Working wonders in raising the level of some bums. But he is inept at setting up the defense, as bad as it is. I'm not sure he would fly with top defenders.
 
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