Every year, right before the start of the Spanish league, Barcelona “warms up” for the first match with the Joan Gamper Cup. It happened this time as well, the Catalan star team played against Monaco in the temporary home, the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona, and the new coach, Hansi Flick, was able to fight for a trophy for the first time in this meeting.
Barcelona tuned into the championship with a heavy defeat Photo: NurPhoto via AFP
The German coach does not throw the result out of the window, after a scoreless first half, Barca scored three goals in the continuation, which lost 3-0. The result was not even saved by the fact that the Catalan team entered the field in reserve formation.
“Falta equipo” – wrote the Catalan newspaper, a Sport today’s front pagei.e. “no team”. The fans were not spared either, while some left quietly, with hanging noses, sadly, while several others booed their favourites. According to the newspaper, nothing has worked and with 5 days to go before the start of the championship, the signs are more worrying than encouraging.
We will analyze and correct the mistakes, we will be ready for the league match against Valencia!
– said Flick after the match.
Barça has not lost its summer trophy, the Gamper Cup, for more than a decade, most recently in the summer of 2012 when Sampdoria beat Tito Vilanova’s Barça.
Barcelona will have an appearance in the Spanish league on Saturday from 9:30 p.m., at the home of Valencia.
