Brest supervisor Eric Roy has warned his gamers that they have to be on excessive alert for a wounded beast after they face Barcelona on Tuesday evening at Montjuic. The French facet will tackle Hansi Flick’s outfit coming off the again of only one level from their final two video games, and poor performances in each.
The Breton facet are the shock package deal to date within the league part, with 10 factors from accessible to date. It’s one thing Roy will attempt to use to their benefit.
“We are the shock of the Champions League. We are actually on the map. That is one thing to be happy with. In France, no person was betting on us. We have silenced the critics. We have ten factors. That takes a variety of stress off us. We are dealing with a terrific problem. It is the form of factor that makes us pinch ourselves. “I’ve advised the gamers that we’ve got to maintain believing in ourselves.”
“We hope to proceed displaying what we are able to do in opposition to Barcelona. We are going to face the European ogre and now he’s injured. We are going to want a variety of resilience, however no matter occurs, we’ll come out on high. We will not be coming as if we had been mates enjoying a sport. “We don’t have anything to lose.”
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“We wish to trigger points and placed on a present. If we’ve got the ball 20% of the time, it will likely be tough to precise ourselves. We do not wish to be a reactive group. Maybe Barca forces us to, however our will is to create issues for them.”
Roy did level to Celta Vigo and Real Sociedad as blueprints for learn how to fight the Blaugrana recipe which till this month had seemed kind of unstoppable.
Flick: “It’s essential to win these three factors at residence. We’re solely specializing in that; if we win, we’ll be in scenario.”
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“We have seemed on the Celta and Real Sociedad matches,” Roy defined to AS Diaryearlier than addressing Barcelona’s now infamous excessive line.
“They play very shut collectively when urgent. They wish to win the ball again in a short time. We understand how they play. But then it’s a must to be very exact together with your passes. They are very vertical and assault in depth. “If we’re not capable of anticipate that, we can have issues.”
Roy additionally stated that his facet had gained the tactical battle already, however that the sport was not performed there. Certainly they’re going into the match with little to lose and all the pieces to realize. Barcelona are a degree behind Brest, and will likely be looking for to agency up their place within the high eight, and thus qualify for the Round of 16.