{"id":65397,"date":"2025-05-07T09:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T09:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65397"},"modified":"2025-05-07T09:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T09:46:13","slug":"flick-fumes-as-barca-crash-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/07\/flick-fumes-as-barca-crash-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Flick Fumes as Barca Crash Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oluwamayowa Fakande<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Barcelona manager Hansi Flick has pointed fingers at what he described as poor officiating after his side&#8217;s dramatic 4-3 defeat to Inter Milan in the Champions League semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-goal thriller at the San Siro ended in heartbreak for the Spanish giants, who bowed out 7-6 on aggregate after extra time.<\/p>\n<p>Despite mounting a spirited comeback to lead late in the match, Barca were undone by two late strikes from the Serie A champions.<\/p>\n<p>Flick, clearly agitated, suggested that key refereeing calls tilted the balance in Inter&#8217;s favour. While refusing to go into detail, he made his displeasure known.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome decisions were fifty-fifty and they always went to Inter. That is football,\u201d he said. \u201cSometimes you feel the referee&#8217;s decisions are unfair, but we must accept and move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Referee Szymon Marciniak\u2019s handling of the match drew criticism from several quarters, with Barcelona feeling hard done by on multiple calls.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the setback, Flick praised his players for their commitment and character.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am disappointed with the result, not with my team. They gave everything,\u201d he said. \u201cWe will return stronger next season. This is a journey, and we will keep learning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona now shift focus to regrouping and reigniting their European quest next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oluwamayowa Fakande Barcelona manager Hansi Flick has pointed fingers at what he described as poor officiating after his side&#8217;s dramatic 4-3 defeat to Inter Milan in the Champions League semi-final. The seven-goal thriller at the San Siro ended in heartbreak for the Spanish giants, who bowed out 7-6 on aggregate after extra time. Despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":65398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65399,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65397\/revisions\/65399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}