{"id":480491,"date":"2026-02-17T10:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/480491\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T10:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:37:08","slug":"hansi-flick-wont-blame-clear-foul-in-shock-barcelona-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/480491\/","title":{"rendered":"Hansi Flick won’t blame ‘clear’ foul in shock Barcelona loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hansi Flick protested there was a clear foul in the build up to Girona<\/a>‘s winning goal, but said he didn’t want to use it as an excuse after Barcelona<\/a> fell to a shock 2-1 defeat at Montilivi on Monday.<\/p>\n

Fran Beltr\u00e1n<\/a> struck in the 86th-minute after Thomas Lemar had cancelled out Pau Cubars\u00ed<\/a>‘s opener, although Bar\u00e7a felt Claudio Echeverri<\/a> had fouled Jules Kound\u00e9<\/a> in the build up to the goal.<\/p>\n

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The defeat saw Bar\u00e7a slip to second in LaLiga, two points behind new leaders Real Madrid<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I don’t want to speak about that,” Flick said when asked if he thought Beltr\u00e1n’s strike should have been disallowed. “Everyone saw the situation before the second goal, but Girona deserved [to win]. We defend very bad, especially in transition, we were too open, our midfield was not in the right position.<\/p>\n

“[Of course the foul] was clear, but it’s like that. For me, I would maybe speak more about that if we played good, but we did not play good.<\/p>\n

“It looks like an excuse, complaining. I don’t want that. We have to play better. We have to come back on this level.”<\/p>\n

The decision came just days after Bar\u00e7a sent a formal complaint to the Spanish Football Federation [RFEF] and the Refereeing Committee [CTA] about what they perceive to be inconsistencies in the standards of officiating, prompted by Cubars\u00ed’s disallowed goal against Atl\u00e9tico Madrid<\/a> las tweek.<\/p>\n

However, Flick refused to be too critical of the referee here, even joking that his players had been just as bad.<\/p>\n

“No complaining, no excuses,” he insisted when pressed on the match officials. “They make their job. Sometimes it’s not a good job, but they are on the same level that we played, so it’s maybe not a good level.”<\/p>\n

Barcelona manager Hansi Flick has a heated conversation with the referee during their match with Girona.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n

Defeat to Girona compounded a miserable week for Bar\u00e7a after they were hammered 4-0 by Atl\u00e9tico in the first leg of their Copa del Rey<\/a> semifinal on Thursday.<\/p>\n

They had taken the lead at Montilivi, Cubars\u00ed heading them in front early in the second half after Lamine Yamal<\/a> had missed a penalty just before the break.<\/p>\n

However, Girona improved after falling behind in what was an open, compelling game, with Lemar levelling almost immediately after Cubars\u00ed’s opener and January signing Beltr\u00e1n completing the turnaround late on.<\/p>\n

“We are not in a good moment,” Flick conceded. “I will give the team two days off now. It’s important they rest.<\/p>\n

“The players are really tired. Maybe with more control, less errors, it’s a different game today. In the first half we had some chances, also the penalty, but it happens.<\/p>\n

“It could be tiredness, but we have to have the hunger to win the games. After losing to Atl\u00e9tico, it was important to win today. We didn’t get this.<\/p>\n

“Everyone is disappointed. We will fight. We have time to come back now in the next two weeks with no midweek games.<\/p>\n

“We will train good and come back for Sunday [against Levante<\/a> at Spotify Camp Nou]. Now we have to fight and attack the first place in the table.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hansi Flick protested there was a clear foul in the build up to Girona‘s winning goal, but said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-480491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}