“We Didn’t Play Well – Flick Slams Barcelona Performance In Las Palmas Defeat

Barcelona coach Hansi Flick was disappointed in the team’s performance in the 2-1 defeat to Las Palmas at home on Saturday in a 2024-25 La Liga encounter.

Las Palmas produced a stunning performance to dent Barcelona’s 125-year anniversary with a vital win at the Estadi Olímpic Stadium.

The Blaugrana have now failed to win their last three matches after the 1-0 defeat to Real Sociedad, and a 2-2 draw against Celta Vigo last week.

Sandro Ramirez punished Barcelona just after the restart after they failed to convert their own chances, he fired in a low effort pass Inaki Pena to make it 1-0 for Las Palmas.

On the hour mark, Raphinha restored parity for the hosts before Fabio Silva snatched the maximum points for Las Palmas in the 67th minute.

Barcelona coach, Hansi Flick admitted that the team did not live up to expectations in the encounter, while blaming the missed chances for the defeat.

He said: “We didn’t play well. The team tried to get a good result, but today was not our day. We were not effective and did not take advantage of the chances we had.

“We created some chances in the second half, but we usually create more.

“When we control the games, when we have that situation we are able to play well and generate chances, but when we don’t, this is our problem. Before it was easier because we generated them and scored goals, but now it’s not like that.

“Today we didn’t score those goals and we have to change. We have to defend better and if you don’t score a goal, it’s more difficult to keep a clean sheet. It’s not a defence thing, it’s a whole team thing.

“Now we have to get back and reconnect. We have difficult games in LaLiga, then the Dortmund game.”

Barcelona captain, Raphinha revealed that the need to do better following their poor showing in the last few games.

He said: “We have to look at what we are doing wrong. I think we have lowered the level of what we are doing, and it’s making things difficult for us during games. I’m angry, I don’t care about my goal, I care about not getting the win.”

Real Madrid will reduce Barcelona’s lead to one point with a win against Getafe on Sunday.

“We Didn’t Play Well – Flick Slams Barcelona Performance In Las Palmas Defeat is first published on The Whistler Newspaper