Hansi Flick: Barcelona need more than Yamal to overturn Atlético in Copa

Barcelona coach Hansi Flick says his group will need more than simply Lamine Yamal to make the “impossible possible” on Tuesday’s King’s Cup semi-final towards Atlético Madrid.

Barça had been hammered 4-0 in the primary leg of the tie in Madrid final month, leaving them with a mountain to climb when the 2 groups reconvene at Spotify Camp Nou this week for the return sport.

However, with the house crowd behind them and Yamal contemporary from scoring his first profession hat trick on the weekend towards VillarrealFlick says Barça imagine they’ll do it.

“The team is the focus,” Flick stated in a information convention when requested if Yamal would have to be at his finest for Barça to pull off an unlikely turnaround.

“How he played after [his first goal on Saturday] It was great to see, I am very happy about that, but we need everyone. It’s not only Lamine, we need everyone on the pitch.

“We are 4 objectives behind. We need to make the unimaginable attainable. This is the aim tomorrow. We realize it will not be simple, however we by no means surrender.

“A clean sheet is important, but also to believe in our strength, to believe that we can do it.”

It is unknown territory for Flick, who says he has by no means been to date behind in his managerial profession going into the second leg of a cup tie.

He is utilizing Barça’s 4-0 win over Borussia Dortmund final season — which was a primary leg sport in the Champions League — as a blueprint forward of the comeback try.

“I was not in this situation before, but I am not scared about this,” he added.

“You always have to believe. Everyone in the stadium will support us. We have a good example, too: the game against Dortmund here last season, 4-0.

“Every half, we wish to rating two objectives. Maybe it could possibly be one aim. We know it is troublesome. We play a improbable group. They harm us quite a bit in the final match.”

Barça have misplaced Robert Lewandowski forward of the sport.

The Poland striker fractured his eye socket towards Villarreal and joins Frenkie de Jong, Gavi and Andreas Christensen on the damage listing, whereas Eric Garcia is suspended.

Barça have strengthened in other areas since the first leg loss to Atlético, though, with the return of Pedri and Raphinha from damage in latest weeks, which Flick says has reworked his group’s performances.

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“It’s good to have [Pedri back]; we’ll see what number of minutes he can play,” Flick said.

“We noticed in the final sport towards Villarreal a completely completely different group. Everyone was preventing, a whole lot of depth in our sport.

“This is what we have to do tomorrow, play like a team, like one unit. We have to play smart, but with this hunger to make it happen.”