Hansi Flick singles Barcelona star out for special praise after Benfica clash | OneFootball

Barcelona head coach Hansi Flick has on Friday moved to lavish praise on Wojciech Szczęsny.

This comes owing to the Pole’s performance in the Champions League in midweek.

Szczęsny, for his part, is of course fresh off conjuring up the finest showing of his short Barcelona stint to date, on Wednesday night.

Afforded a starting berth between the posts in a continental showdown with Benfica, the former Arsenal man was in nothing short of inspired form throughout the 90 minutes.

Owing to a haul of eight saves, Barcelona managed to secure a clean sheet, en route to a hard-fought 1-0 triumph.

And one individual on whom such excellence was not at all lost is the aforementioned Hansi Flick.

Speaking in a press conference ahead of his side’s La Liga meeting with Osasuna on Saturday, the German tactician made use of the opportunity to single Szczęsny out for some well-deserved praise:

“All the players did well in Lisbon, but Wojciech Szczęsny did really fantastic helping all of us.

“That’s why he’s our no.1 goalkeeper.”

Conor Laird – GSFN