Flick: Losing has nothing to do with the team system. The most painful defeat? It was still the Champions League loss to Inter Milan last season

Football 1:43am, 6 October 2025 60

Barcelona lost 1-4 to Sevi in ​​this round. After the game, Barcelona coach Frick attended the press conference.

How does

explain this level of failure?

They played aggressively in the first half and we didn't find a solution. I think we reacted in the second half. We have to focus on what we do not do well and work to make sure that this doesn’t happen again.

I think we are a team, the injured players will return, and I'm sure the second half of the reaction. We are not happy because losing is painful, but I want to see it in that way. What I saw in the locker room was the players who wanted to react, I saw their anger, which made me like it. We will enter the intermittent period and we will come back to see if we can rebound successfully.

Does the team system need to be changed?

I don't think it has to do with the system and the system. I think we made a serious mistake in the first half. I don't want to talk about something that happened today, but we didn't perform well in the first half. We made some changes in the second half; if the penalty kick was made, it might have changed the situation. But that is already a past tense.

We have to learn from today's game and against Paris, we will. Hopefully after the interval we can recover some important players we need; then we return to win for the fans.

After Vallecano's game, you said that ego would kill success. Today, before another interval, there is another defeat. Is there any similarity between this?

This is of course different. We've tried everything. But football is a question about goals. This is easy to explain; and today we haven't done it with great opportunities. But that's the reality of our game and we have to keep moving forward.

This is a loss that has more than just lost three points. Is it the most painful thing you have ever coached in Barcelona?

The most painful thing is definitely Inter Milan's semi-finals. I have to accept this defeat and I look at it on the positive side. We have to change the things we didn’t do well, especially the first half mistakes. We didn't control the situation in some areas. But this is not the most painful defeat.

This interval is just right, is it physically or mentally?

I don't know. Maybe you can ask me this question again after the interval. It is a good thing to have an interval, and players can go to the national team and experience a different atmosphere. This will be the positive side. What I told them is that when they come back we will work hard to train to get back to our level. But we also need the players to return to 100% form.

What worries you the most?

We have to analyze all these things, practice those links that don't work, practice how to play football in different areas. They want to do one-on-one and we don’t know how to deal with it. They took control of Pedri and Frenki De Jong, but the problem was how to support them while holding the ball.