Barcelona coach Hansi Flick feels a disconnect between defence and assault is affecting his staff after their winless run in LaLiga stretched to 3 video games with a 2-1 loss to Las Palmas on Saturday.
Sandro Ramirez and Fábio Silva scored both aspect of a Raphinha strike as Las Palmas shocked Barça on the Olympic Stadium and ruined their a hundred and twenty fifth anniversary celebrations.
Barça are actually with no league win since Nov. 3 they usually might be knocked off the highest of the desk if Real Madrid, 4 factors again, win their two video games in hand.
“I consider within the gamers,” Flick mentioned in a information convention when requested about his aspect’s dip in kind since profitable 11 or their opening 12 LaLiga video games.
“We have staff. The matches like at this time, it occurs, OK. When I began right here, I mentioned to the gamers ‘no excuses.’ We should hold going as a staff.
“When you play as a staff, or higher than as a staff, and everybody defends nicely, together with within the offence, and is nicely related, we are able to play and win towards each staff.
“But if it isn’t, if some gamers are disconnected, then it isn’t good and now we have to discuss that.”
Poor defending specifically led to Las Palmas’ second objective, scored by Silva after Raphinha’s 14th objective of the marketing campaign had received Barça again into the sport, however Flick was insistent it’s a staff downside.
“When you see how the Las Palmas objectives are [scored], we make some errors, but it surely was not solely the final 4, it began additionally in entrance,” he added. “And now we have to discuss that.”
The loss to Las Palmas comes after a draw with Celta Vigo, when Barça surrendered a two-goal lead, and a defeat at Real Sociedad.
It is a run of kind which is threatening to derail Barça’s season and all the nice work they did early on, however Flick says confidence stays excessive within the squad going into successive away video games towards Mallorca, Real Betis and Borussia Dortmund. “The gamers consider in how they’ll play soccer, how robust they are often,” he mentioned. “I say it once more, we’d like connection and at this time it was not [there].
“We can do it. We have the standard. Today now we have 70% possession and 27 pictures. I missed that [efficiency] in entrance of objective to attain the objectives.
“At the top it is two objectives for them and one for us. We have to just accept it. It’s an enormous disappointment at this time.”
Flick additionally confirmed that Dani Olmo did not come off the bench as a result of he had a knock, including that he ought to return for Tiuesday’s journey to Mallorca.
Marc Casadó can even be again from suspension for that recreation, whereas Lamine Yamal is in competition to begin after coming back from an ankle damage as an alternative towards Las Palmas.
