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Thierry Henry insists Barcelona need to change their approach (CBS Sports) Thierry Henry insists Barcelona are not good enough in defence to win the Champions League this season. Barca were forced to come from behind on three occasions to salvage a 3-3 draw against Club Brugge on Wednesday evening and the result has left the Catalan side 11th in the Champions League table and outside of an automatic place in the last-16 stage with four games remaining. Speaking after the draw in Belgium, Barcelona head coach, Hansi Flick, was adamant that his side would not alter how they set up at the back. ‘Last season, we wouldn’t have conceded that first goal. We don’t have the same confidence when playing the offside trap. We won’t change our way of defending,’ Flick said. ‘In midfield, we didn’t press well, and it was difficult to defend against their players with pace. We need to analyse the draw and see where we can improve.’ Henry, however, stressed that Barcelona will not challenge the likes of Arsenal and Bayern Munich if they remain unorganised in defence. ‘The co-ordination [in defence] is so bad,’ Henry told CBS Sports. Barcelona came from behind three times in their 3-3 draw with Club Brugge (Shutterstock) ‘You can’t win the Champions League like this, it’s very difficult. ‘It’s this game [against Club Brugge], it’s against Paris Saint-Germain, last year it was against Benfica, then it was the Clasico, then it was Inter. ‘As we all know, I played for Arsenal, I played for Juve, I won a lot of stuff at Barcelona, for me to say that… it pains me to say that because I don’t want to talk about my old club like that. ‘But you have to call a spade a spade. You can’t carry on defending like this. Every time hoping to score three or four, to be the team, not now, not in the modern era of football, you can’t defend like that.’ For more stories like this, check our sport page. Follow Metro Sport for the latest news on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
