Hans-Dieter Flick

[Fati_Future_BallonDor]

Barca's last 10 coaches, sorted by win quota and average goal per game in the first 12 games:

@Birdy The 1,33 of Xavi vs the 3,25 from Hansi

 

[Birdy]

@Birdy The 1,33 of Xavi vs the 3,25 from Hansi

OMG!!

Given that 2nd and 3rd are Tata and Tito who took ready-made teams, this makes Flick's achievement even bigger

 

[Barcaman]

Let's not forget we will also have a visit to San Sebastian at the end of this run of games before international break.

Very important days ahead.

 

[Temptation]

Told you guys way back. Hansi Flick was always the best option for Barca.


Tremendous football. Tremendous results.

 

[jamrock]

Damn Flick is a better Coach than pep.


After 12 games

Not to mention Tata 😂.

That's one of those, don't post it kind of stats haha.

 

[serghei]

If Flick can do this vs big teams, he's gonna define an era I think.

Don't care to be the pessimistic one, but his grand total of big games vs serious opponents so far is 0. Monaco is probably the best team he faced, but the match got conditioned big time by the early red card.

 

[Porque]

In defence of Xavi. His attack for the the first games were shocking. Having to rely on the raw streetball version of Abde-Jutgla-Demir at times.

But he also tried to not use Luuk de Jong, so...

 

[SmilerBam]

I was surprised to see we were 4th favourite for the UCL at the start of the competition, but I think that's about right now. Watching City over the weekend, I think we beat them fairly easily. Liverpool, despite the results, don't look as good going forward as they did under Klopp and are doing just enough to get their wins

QSG have suddenly become a team without a star player and look dangerous, but they just don't have the pedigree in the UCL against a competent big team. Indeed, we should have beaten them under Xavi.

That leaves Madrid and Bayern who are the main challengers. Madrid have a self esteem issue when it comes to Barca. Yes, they have won the last few meetings, but Barca have been a mess and they really should have put in a few humiliations. The only time was when we practically had a reserve XI out in the 0-4.
When both teams are playing well, there is only one winner.

Bayern will be the biggest test, purely because mentally they have the psychological edge over us. Olise has revitalised their attack like Olmo has ours. The teams are very closely matched with the big differences being their goalkeeper and our manager.

People will accuse me of being overly optimistic again, but remember there is still Gavi, Araujo, Christensen, Olmo, Fermin, Tec to come in to this team. That depth coming off the bench will help tremendously.

I don't think this team is ready yet to challenge for the CL..And no, we won't beat City or Bayern. Real have a better team still than us, altho our potential is higher. Let s see how we play this week against the big boys and then we'll make a judgement. But surely this team is exciting and sky should be the limit in the future.

 

[ajnotkeith]

We can compete as it is once the main players are back.

No wrong profiles in the team. Just lacking some top experience on 2 positions.

The player profile is not an issue at all. The front trio is superb for example.

Aaaaahhhhh, so now the squad is good enough to compete to win the CL!

What changed from a few months ago, may I ask?

 

[Grande]

Aaaaahhhhh, so now the squad is good enough to compete to win the CL!

What changed from a few months ago, may I ask?

Coach.

 

[Birdy]

Aaaaahhhhh, so now the squad is good enough to compete to win the CL!

What changed from a few months ago, may I ask?

What didn't change: some in here never found an ounce of shame in them

 

[KingLeo10]

Aaaaahhhhh, so now the squad is good enough to compete to win the CL!

What changed from a few months ago, may I ask?

The main change is Hansi, but to be fair, Lamine went up a whole level over the Euros.

Hansi's found a great role for Raphinha though and made Lewa useful again.

 

[serghei]

Aaaaahhhhh, so now the squad is good enough to compete to win the CL!

What changed from a few months ago, may I ask?

We competed for CL last season mate. I don't mean as a favorite, but with a bit of luck we could have played the final. Now we are more experienced and when the quarterfinals come I hope we won't make the same individual blunders.

We can compete for sure. Winning it is a different story. It is not THAT hard, you just need to go step by step and gain experience at playing big games.

If you look at it, with each season we did better. 21-22 shite and trashed by Benfica, 22-23, better, unlucky to not go through in the toughest group of the last 5 seasons. Last season, won the group and came close to the semis. Next step is reaching the top 4. If not this season, the next we will probably manage to do that.

 

[serghei]

If you check the teams that consistently make CL semis you have Madrid and City, that's it, they are far and above the best teams for many years. The rest of the teams in the top 4 were different each season. 2022, Liverpool and Villareal, 2023 Inter and Milan, 2024 Dortmund and PSG. Of course we can match these teams and go far ourselves. Last season proved it. Neither of the 6 teams except for Klopp's Dortmund are superior to us. They just had more experienced players, more luck here and there in some key moments, didn't do huge blunders to fuck up their chances... stuff like that.

Also, of course a few years ago we were worse. Our young players are getting more and more experienced with every passing season. Since then most of them already became Champions of Spain. Now most are Euro winners too.

 

[Porque]

Excellent job so far by Flick. But this is Barcelona, two losses in the next two games and the Catalans will be waving the white flags.

Huge huge week.

Xavi too had a top start last year, though not as good obviously. Lost the Madrid game despite an excellent first half, and then the season went tits up for a while until we hit the "I quit" mini-boost.