Hansi Flick will take it. A win is a win when it’s your first day on the job as the new Barcelona manager.
Even more so when, per the new Barca tradition, you can’t register all your players.
Flick has spent the preseason working with teenagers, most of whom haven’t yet made their Barca first team debuts. Looking at the roster against Valencia, the question will now be if he’ll need to depend on them out of necessity rather than choice.
Throw in another surprise with the absence of Ilkay Gundogan from the lineup.