{"id":654075,"date":"2026-05-20T08:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/654075\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T08:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:53:08","slug":"we-need-to-find-the-balance-joan-garcia-talks-barcelonas-champions-league-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/654075\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We need to find the balance\u2019 &#8211; Joan Garcia talks Barcelona\u2019s Champions League ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Joan Garcia has been talking about Barcelona\u2019s Champions League hopes and how the team must improve if they are to finally land the European Cup once more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWe need to find the balance between not losing their identity and having more control of matches from the back, perhaps dropping back a little more during uncomfortable periods of the game,\u201d he told EFE.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Garcia also highlighted how the Champions League \u201cfeatures the best teams from each league,\u201d and stressed the need to be \u201c100% defensively,\u201d otherwise quality opponents will take advantage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The goalkeeper also says Barca will also have to put some hard work in if they are to improve on this season\u2019s showing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt would be a mistake to think it\u2019s going to happen on its own, it doesn\u2019t. We have to keep working. If we don\u2019t improve the small details that are keeping us out of the qualifiers, it\u2019s not going to happen. We also have to trust the process, the maturity we\u2019re gaining,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWe are a very young group. We still need to gain a lot of experience in the Champions League. Last year we came very close to the final, this year we almost reached the semis. These are things that help us know how to play these kinds of matches in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joan Garcia has been talking about Barcelona\u2019s Champions League hopes and how the team must improve if they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1481,4218,403,99],"class_list":["post-654075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barcelona-team-news","tag-barcelona-uefa-champions-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}