Despite Barcelona maintaining their perfect start to the La Liga season with a 1-0 win over Getafe on Wednesday, head coach Hansi Flick insisted they can still improve. (More Football News)
Robert Lewandowski's 19th-minute strike was enough to secure the victory for the Blaugran🐠a, but the hosts should have won by a more comfortable scoreline.
At the ♔end of the contest, Barca accumulated an expected goals (xG) total of 1.92 from their 15 shots, but only four of those were on targe🍌t.
But Flick, who became the third Barca coach to win his first seven LaLiga games after Gerardo Martino in 2013 and Ernesto Valverdeꦕ in 2017, insisted his side were still very much a work in progress.
"To get seven wins is perfect, but we have to do some tꩵhings better," Flick said.
"Today we had a very g🧸ood mentality. For me it's a good starting point to💧 improve.
"I've been told that it's alwღays like that against Getafe, they are very good in defence, but I'm very proud of my players and how they fought for 95 minutes."
The result saw Barca extend their lead to rivals Real Madridဣ at the summit o🐈f the standings to four points ahead of facing Osasuna this weekend.
It was also a straightforward game for the hosts' stand-in goalkeeper Inaki Pena, who kept a clean sheet and was forced to make just one save𝐆 during the contest.
Pena replaced Marc-Andre ter Stegen between the sticks after the German 🎉international came off injured during Barca's 5-1 win over Villarreal la♚st week.
The extent of Ter Stegen's injury was confirmed shortly after, with the 32-year-old undergoing knee surgery on Monday and he is now expected to mi💃ss the rest of the season.
Reports suggest that Barca are considering welcoming Wojciech Szczesny as an emergency back-up, despite the Pole calling timܫe on his career earlier thi൩s year.
However, Flick refused to discuss those rum🅷ours linking Szczesny to a shock move to the Camp Nou.
"I only speak of the players we have in the team. Inaki Pena is our number one goalkeeper and I'm happy. This is what it's worth," 🦄Flick said.
"We have Inaki Pena who is 25-years-old but the rest of the goalkeepers are very young, so if something happenꦜs we have to hav🍨e experience."
