Former Barcelona star Thierry Henry has had some strong criticism for Hansi Flick and his team after Wednesday’s 3-3 draw with Club Brugge in the Champions League.
The Catalans managed to snatch a draw in Belgium, but there are real concerns over how far they can go in the competition after seeing their defence ripped apart once again.
Here’s what Henry made of it all:
“I don’t want to talk about my old club like that, but you’ve got to call a spade a spade,” he told CBS Sports. “You can’t carry on defending like this.”
“I can’t bypass the fact that you keep on letting people go and run at your goal. If you’re a team now, if you didn’t do your due diligence that Barcelona play a high line and you don’t make the late run … Late runs. You can go and do it every single time!
“Why would you put yourself in a situation when you’re going to make yourself suffer alone? No disrespect to what Brugge did, but you defend the ball and you defend your goal.
“You don’t just defend the ball when there is no pressure on it, and you let people run left and right, and then they have chances left and right every single time. That’s not really something that you want to do. You’re supposed to erase mistakes, not create them yourself.”
Yet Flick hinted he wasn’t going to change his methods after the game, saying: “We can change some things, but we also have to stick to our philosophy. We don’t have to change our style of play; we are Barça.”
