The image Flick offered at the end of the match that Barca won against Deportivo Alaves was very harsh. In it, the German coach can be seen talking to Raphinha with a very worried look on his face and with an at least disturbing gesture
Flick shakes his head and ends up staring into space after listening to the Brazilian striker who seemed to try to encourage his coach. “After the end of the match, Raphinha was telling me the same thing as last time: We are going to get better. We will be much better in the next matches,” revealed the coach.
Raphinha himself spoke of his coach’s bad feelings: “The coach has felt that we could do much more on the pitch, we also know that we can do much better. His feeling is that the team is not playing at its best and I agree. We have to improve a lot but even so I think the most important thing today was to come out with the victory. The bad things we are doing we have time to fix them and I’m sure we’ll get back to our best. We will win playing well but if there is a game that we play badly I do not care, the important thing is to win.”
However, Flick himself did not want to reveal his state of mind in the post-match press conference, although he was blunt about the real state of his team: “We don’t have the control or intensity of last season. I’m not worried about last season, I have to focus on this one. This season, we’ve had more injuries and last season I saw that everyone was available. We improved after every game and win, and this season is going well, with four wins in a row, but we can’t be content with that. We have to improve”.
Flick’s demand
In the first few months of the season, the German coach has been very critical of his team, demanding much more from them on the pitch. The harsh image that Flick leaves in front of the cameras is a reason for attention regarding the future of the team
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