The date of Barcelona’s “possible revenge” against Atletico Madrid…and Flick confirms: “We are capable”!

Barcelona coach Hansi Flick insisted on Monday that his team is capable of overturning a huge 4-0 deficit against Atletico Madrid during the second leg of the Spanish Football Cup semi-final scheduled for Tuesday (12 pm UAE time).
The Catalan giant will host the team of Argentine coach Diego Simeone on Tuesday in the return match, after suffering a heavy loss at the Metropolitano Stadium last month with a score of 4-0, but it now needs a historic remontada in order to continue the campaign to defend its title.
Flick told reporters: “We are four goals behind, so we want to make the impossible possible. This is our goal for Tuesday’s match.”
He added, “We all know that it is not easy, but in the end we never give up. We will start this match with our eyes on keeping a clean sheet, believing in our strengths and in our ability to achieve that.”
Barcelona defeated Villarreal 4-1 on Saturday at its Camp Nou stadium in the Spanish League, including a hat-trick for its young star, Lamine Jamal, which was the first in his career.
Flick said that the young Spanish international will be very important for his team against Atletico, but the team as a whole needs to perform highly in order to achieve a comeback.
“The team is always the focus,” Flick said.
He added: “His first goal came after a wonderful recovery of the ball and a special pass from Fermin (Lopes), and Jamal has exceptional quality to score such a goal and position himself in the right place at the right moment.”
He added, “What he did next was wonderful to watch. I am very happy about that, but in the end we need everyone, not just Lamin.”
Flick believed that the performance against Villarreal represented a remarkable step forward for Barcelona, ​​calling on his players to perform similarly against Atletico.
Flick said, “We are playing against a great team, and they caused us a lot of trouble in the last match, but we can achieve this.”
He added, “We have to play intelligently, but also with that great desire to achieve the goal. In the last match against Villarreal, we saw a completely different team, with a different dynamic and higher intensity in our performance.”
He continued, “We must play as one unit, as this is the key to tomorrow’s match.”
The Catalan club will be missing injured Polish striker Robert Lewandowski, while Pedri will return to the team’s midfield after participating as a substitute in previous matches.
For his part, Simeone said that the method his team will adopt to stop Gamal is to force him to retreat to his rear areas.
The Argentine coach added, “He is a very distinguished player on an individual level, and is especially capable of making a difference in the final third of the field.”
He continued, “We have to take advantage of the opportunity that this gives us to attack in that space, and push him to the place where he feels most uncomfortable, which is defense.”