Hansi Flick: 'Atalanta have a unique style'

Hansi Flick: 'Atalanta have a unique style'

Although his team are already through to the last 16, FC Barcelona's coach hopes to ensure a top two finish

Hansi Flick has already got the job done in the Champions League with a game to spare at home to Atalanta on Wednesday, but he knows that a top two finish is still an important goal.

Admiration for Gasperini

"Finishing in the top two could be important for the following phases of the competition" he explained. A draw against the Serie A side would be enough to ensure that.


"I have a lot of respect for Gasperini and his work. He's been more than eight years at Atalanta and you can see when a club has so much trust in a coach. What they have done in the last few years is incredible and they have a unique style in Europe. They press one on one across the whole pitch, and it's not easy to play against them."

However, they are suffering a key loss in the injured Nigerian Ademola Lookman, but Flick opined that "when an important player is missing, it's not easy. But Gasperini knows his team well. They won't change their style because they have the same ideas."

Goalkeeping debate

As for his decisions regarding Wojciech Szczęsny and Iñaki Peña, the German insisted that "my job is to make decisions. They are two great keepers and with my team we have opted for Szczesny, and that's it. Iñaki has done a great job, but I have gone for Tek. I try to do the best for the team, and that's what I have done."

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