“I’m disappointed because we played a very good match, was Hansi Flick’s first assessment after a very frustrating defeat away at Real Sociedad. Barça hit the woodwork four times, had two goals disallowed and created countless chances."

"The result doesn’t reflect our performance" continued the German, who did acknowledge, however, that “we have to defend better, especially after conceding the second goal immediately after scoring the equaliser"

Even so, in general terms he believes his side “played good football because there are days when you put in a lot of energy and in the end you don’t have any luck ... We deserved to win, but that’s football.”

Asked repeatedly about the refereeing performance, the Barça coach was also emphatic. “I don’t want to waste energy on the referee. Everyone has seen his performance and we have to accept it. We have to keep going in this direction. We mustn’t waste energy on things like referees. We need to focus on everything we can control ... Now, on Wednesday, it’s time to win in Prague."

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