And from Pedri was in way on in the Ciutat de València, especially in the second half. It was just after the costume pass, when the Barca team listened to Hansi Flick. Barça relied on the talent of Catalan and the Canary, but also reacted thanks to the board of the German coach. In his case it was not only a matter of talent, but also of work. Gavi’s changes for Casadó and Dani Olmo by Rashford were key to the comeback against Valencia, two tactical variants that Flick had already rehearsed in the previous duel against Levante.
When he began to lose training – his wife’s childbirth was delayed and his second son was finally born in the early hours of Friday – Flick worked with the idea of Casadó and Gavi as possible replacements for the Dutch midfielder. In addition, he placed Raphinha as an alternative to Dani Olmo and Fermín. “He has given us a couple of tactical nuances because we were not quite well positioned and, most importantly, that we had to take out character, that winning gene. We have gone well and we have been effective,” said Ferran Torres about the technical talk of the German in the Ciutat de València wardrobe.
. “We knew that it was not an easy field. In the first part we did not give the ball rhythm, but I stayed with the reaction of the team. I lowered my position for Raphinha to be placed between the lines. We had to give speed to the low block to generate spaces,” said the canary, still annoying by the arbitration decision in the penalty committed by bucket at the end of the first half. “They recently gave us a talk in the sports city. Last year there were lighter hands of Tchouaméni in Montjuïc and they didn’t whistle, today.”
“I don’t know if the hands are clear or not, but you have to accept it,” Flick settled. The coach also explained why he decided to change in the second part: “Rashford showed us in the first thing it is, but after the break we had to adjust and put Raphinha on the left. The first goal helped the comeback a lot.
Flick changed and Pedri appeared and, of course, Lamine Yamal.
