Barcelona player rejects man-of-the-match award after El Clásico!

11.05.25 FT LaLiga Spain

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Brazilian winger Rafinha refused to be awarded the man-of-the-match award after his outstanding performance in Sunday's 4-3 win at the Montjuïc Stadium after an epic game in which the Brazilian scored two goals for his side.

What Raphinia did!

In his second goal, Raphinia pressurised Lucas Vazquez, took the ball away from him and passed it to Ferran Torres before Torres played it back into the penalty area for Rafinha to score his fourth and final goal of the game.

However, at the end of the game, Rafinha was not awarded the Man of the Match award and could easily have been if he hadn't missed so many chances, something he himself admitted after the game in one of the interviews, saying: "I didn’t play well today, ‘I don’t deserve the Man of the Match award. I would have given it to someone else".

Hans Flick talks about his team defensively!

Despite his team's comeback from a 2-0 loss to a big 4-3 win, Hans Flick was not very happy with his team's defensive system in all respects and indicated that the team needs to improve more in the defensive area, especially when they are pressing high on the opposition.

I am going to have to check my heart,’ Flick said. ‘It would be easy to say that the tactic is to score four if they score three, We have to improve a lot defensively. When we press, it is fine. But this [can] get complicated when we make mistakes. It would be nice to win three titles (including the Supercopa de España) and only need one victory now.

But this is football. We are in a good position but you never know what can happen. We still need three points and every opponent wants to beat us.

Hazem Mlhem |

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Hazem Mlhem est un rédacteur sportif expérimenté, animé par une passion pour le football africain.

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