{"id":74566,"date":"2025-08-17T07:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T07:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/74566\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T07:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T07:45:09","slug":"hansi-flick-explains-why-he-started-eric-garcia-over-jules-kounde-for-barcelona-vs-real-mallorca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/74566\/","title":{"rendered":"Hansi Flick explains why he started Eric Garcia over Jules Kounde for Barcelona vs Real Mallorca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Flick was asked about his thinking after the win and said his decision was down to Eric\u2019s impressive performances in pre-season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201dIn the preseason, Eric has been very good and deserved to play, that\u2019s all. As a coach, I make decisions based on the players\u2019 performances. Kounde is also at a great level,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Eric has emerged not just as an option at right-back but seemingly as genuine competition for Kounde for the 2025-26 season after shining last year under Flick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Garcia\u2019s performances at right-back also seem to have spelled bad news for Hector Fort. He is now being tipped to depart the club before the close of the transfer window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flick was asked about his thinking after the win and said his decision was down to Eric\u2019s impressive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,11561,11563,596,85],"class_list":["post-74566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-barcelona-la-liga","tag-barcelona-team-news","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}