‘Every 50:50 decision went for Inter’ - Hansi Flick speaks out after Barcelona’s Champions League exit

Hansi Flick took aim at the match officials after seeing his team beaten by Inter in the Champions League but made it clear he was proud of his players for all their efforts in the competition.

Another thrilling game between the two sides ended in a 4-3 victory for the Azzurri which completed a 7-6 aggregate win.

The game featured a number of controversial incidents, and Flick felt all the marginal decisions went in Inter’s favour.

“I’m disappointed, but not with the players or their performance. They tried everything, and it is what it is. We’re out, but next year we’ll try again and try to make the whole club and the fans happy,” he told the media. “Inter also plays and is a great team. They defend very well and have good forwards. They keep possession, they have good automatic mechanisms. “I don’t want to talk too much about the referee, but I think every 50-50 decision he made was for them. That’s football, you have to accept it. “I think about it, about the refereeing decisions, but I don’t want to talk about it. It’s not fair to my team, who did an amazing job. I don’t like talking about the referee. I’ve told him what I think, but I’m not going to say it here.”

The Barcelona boss also insisted his team will learn from the defeat and is already thinking about Sunday’s Clasico.

“We’ll learn. It’s a progression. We want to keep learning. We don’t have much time to train. We’ll be back next season,” he added. “It’s normal that we’re disappointed, but on Thursday we’ll be back training and preparing for the match against Real Madrid.”

Barca will now fly home and then look forward to hosting Los Blancos in a crucial game at the top of the table.

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