Hansi Flick hailed his Barcelona gamers after lifting his first title as La Blaugrana boss.
The Catalans hammered defending champions Real Madrid 5-2 in Jeddah to assert the 2025 Spanish Supercup.
Flick’s expenses had been in irresistible kind in Saudi Arabia as 4 first half objectives left Los Blancos with a mountain to climb within the recreation.
Barcelona’s confidence and ruthlessness in entrance of objective was an excessive amount of for Real Madrid to deal with they usually can now stay up for the remainder of the marketing campaign with optimism.
Flick claimed the claimed the 4-0 win in Madrid in La Liga motion in October offered the blueprint for the win with Robert Lewandowski, Lamine Yamal and Raphinha all on track in each matches.
“The recreation we performed in Madrid gave us confidence to win this sort of recreation and we confirmed that in our response to conceding the primary objective,” he mentioned at full time.
“The workforce is wonderful. We stick collectively and that is vital. The objective is to study from each recreation and enhance.”
Barcelona are in Copa del Rey final 16 motion in midweek and they’re on the verge of securing a spot within the UEFA Champions League final 16 by the tip of January.
They at the moment are charged with getting again into the league title race within the coming weeks with a six-point hole to leaders Atletico Madrid on the midway stage of the marketing campaign.