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Messi: Barca can’t win Champions League playing like we were
Lionel Messi insisted Barcelona cannot win the haps Setien misunderstood.» Champions League unless they improve their Barca were two points clear of bitter rivals performances, disagreeing with head coach Real Madrid atop La Liga through 27 matches Quique Setien. Covid-19 has wreaked havoc at the time of postponement. La Liga officials globally, bringing sport to a standstill, with the are looking to resume the 2019-20 season in likes of La Liga and the Champions League on mid-June as Germany’s Bundesliga restarts on hiatus since March. Barca – who returned to Saturday. «This break may end up benefiting individual training last week – had been pre- us, but we are going to see if they can start the paring for the second leg of their Champions competitions and there we will leave doubts, League last-16 tie against Napoli when the because we will check the level that we have competition was suspended due to coronavi- or can reach when we start,» Messi said. «Going rus. The Spanish giants had drawn 1-1 away to back to training is a first step but we should not Napoli in February, with Messi claiming Barca trust ourselves and we must continue taking could not win the Champions League – a view all the necessary precautions and assume that Setien did not share in April. Messi was asked we have to start playing the games when they about the Champions League again ahead of a arrive but behind closed doors.» «Personally possible August restart, and the six-time Ballon I am looking forward to the competitions. We d’Or winner issued a warning for Barca. «I never know that everything is going to be weird, with- doubted the squad we have and I have no doubt out fans in the stadium and with the theme of that we can win all that remains, but not by play- the concentrations that we really would not like ing in the way we were playing,» Messi, who has to have to be separated from our families. You won four Champions League titles, told Sport. have to see how it looks.» Messi added: «Phys- «Now, everyone has their opinion and they are ically I feel very well. I was training at home all very respectable. Mine is based on the fact these days and I think it helped me to keep fit. that I was lucky to play the Champions League «Very hard confinement, but with the children every year and I know that it is not possible to and with Antonela everything ends up becom- win it by playing as we have been playing. Per- ing moments that I try to enjoy all together.»
Bayern Munich’s supremacy not good Things to look out for on the for Bundesliga – Elber Bundesliga’s return
Former Bayern Munich forward Giovane Elber be- si Flick, has been key to the club’s turnaround. Finally, we have some football on our TV screens es are to be played out safely. lieves that the Bavarian club’s «supremacy» in the Bayern travel to Union Berlin on Sunday for their again! This week, teams have been in quarantine camps Bundesliga isn’t good for the competition. first game back since the Bundesliga was sus- The Bundesliga is back this weekend and promises where the ideal scenario was for clubs to have ei- Bayern have finished in first place in the German pended in March due to the coronavirus pandem- to fill the giant sporting void in our lives during the ther entire hotels or floors to themselves. top flight for the past seven seasons and are cur- ic. current coronavirus crisis. If that has not been possible, squads have had to rently top of the table ahead of the Bundesliga Flick’s side are yet to lose a game in 2020 with Action returns with a barnstorming Revierderby use their own entrances, lifts and team meeting resuming on May 16. their last league defeat now dating back to De- on Saturday afternoon as Borussia Dortmund and rooms to avoid contact with other visitors is ad- Elber himself won four Bundesliga titles while cember when they fell to a 2-1 loss against Borru- Jadon Sancho welcome arch-rivals Schalke to the vised. with Bayern but stressed such dominance isn’t sia Monchengladbach. Westfalenstadion while Bayern Munich travel to Teams have to use multiple buses with enough good for the competition, nor the club itself. Berlin, meanwhile, are 11th in the Bundesliga take on plucky underdogs Union Berlin on Sunday. space for players to sit at least 1.5 metres apart on With the Brazilian also noting that Bayern and were without a win from their last three Apart from Liverpool’s blockbuster front three, their way to stadiums. Players and staff must wear would swap three league titles for one Champi- matches prior to the suspension of play. there is probably no attacking line-up more excit- masks on arrival. Home players are allowed to trav- ons League crown, Elber told Goal: «This Bayern The German Football League (DFL) announced ing in world football than these two at Dortmund. el in their own cars but car sharing is forbidden. supremacy is not good for the Bundesliga, no on Thursday that Bundesliga clubs will be able to Since Dortmund won the race to sign Erling Players are limited to a maximum of 40-minute doubt. «I felt the supporters were craziest when use five substitutes as a result of the coronavirus Haaland in January he has scored nine goals in stints in dressing rooms, where they must keep we were chasing the leaders, and when we got pandemic. eight Bundesliga appearances, taking his ridicu- masks on. on top of the table they calmed down because «From now on, each club will have a total of lous tally for the entire campaign to 40 goals in 33 On the field, everyone bar the active players and they started thinking ‹Oh, now Bayern are going three opportunities to substitute players during appearances. officials has to wear a face mask, although manag- to win it’. a game, including the half-time break,» a DFL Sancho’s output in front of goal has also been ers can lower theirs to shout instructions. «I’m sure Bayern would exchange two or three statement read.«If there is extra time in the sec- ridiculous this season. He has 14 goals and 15 Balls will also be disinfected before and during the Bundesliga’s for one Champions League, be- ond leg of the relegation play-offs, both teams assists in 23 Bundesliga matches and they were game and players have to use personalised, dis- cause the Champions League is different. The are given a fourth opportunity to change players, combining effortlessly before the season was posable bottles. Substitutes must sit at least one Bundesliga, as we say, is like homework.» which they can use in the interruption between halted. seat apart, or in the stands if the benches are too After a poor start to the season which saw head regular time and extra time or in the half-time pe- Bundesliga football will look very different this small. coach Niko Kovac sacked, Bayern are now four riod of extra time. The DFL ‹Football Commission’ weekend as it adapts to the new normal. There Players can no longer celebrate in groups, high-five points clear of Borussia Dortmund in the league recommends that a maximum of two players be have been a very strict set of instructions sent out or embrace, and they have also been asked not to with Elber noting that Kovac’s replacement, Han- substituted at the same time.» to players, managers and clubs to follow if match- spit, other than when re-hydrating.