{"id":1360,"date":"2026-01-19T17:22:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2026-01-19T17:22:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:22:48","slug":"barca-boss-hansi-flick-slams-gil-manzano-after-real-sociedad-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/barca-boss-hansi-flick-slams-gil-manzano-after-real-sociedad-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Barca boss Hansi Flick slams Gil Manzano after Real Sociedad defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-8.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-8-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-8-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Barcelona manager Hansi Flick expressed his strong displeasure with Gil Manzano&#8217;s refereeing after his side&#8217;s defeat to Real Sociedad at Anoeta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FC Barcelona coach Hansi Flick expressed his visible anger with the referee&#8217;s performance after his side&#8217;s 2-1 defeat at Anoeta, declaring that &#8220;everyone knows what happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The German coach lamented his team&#8217;s loss in a match where they created &#8220;chances to win.&#8221; He added: &#8220;We must continue on this path; we cannot change our playing style. Now, we need to focus on what to improve.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite this, much of the press conference centred on Jesus Gil Manzano&#8217;s refereeing. The official controversially disallowed three goals and did not awarded a possible penalty in favour of the Catalan giants, with some decisions appearing extremely marginal. &#8220;I do not agree with some decisions, but that&#8217;s all there is to it,&#8221; Flick indicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The German coach highlighted one specific incident, a marginal offside call against Lamine, which he described as &#8220;identical&#8221; to Robert Lewandowski&#8217;s disallowed offside goal last season, also at Anoeta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following this defeat, Real Madrid now sit just one point behind FC Barcelona in La Liga title race. Real Sociedad scored their 2-1 winner just a minute after Barca&#8217;s equaliser \u2013 a play Flick insisted his side &#8220;must improve.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona manager Hansi Flick expressed his strong displeasure with Gil Manzano&#8217;s refereeing after his side&#8217;s defeat to Real<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}