mónaco - barcelona | Barcelona game changed totally after García red - Flick

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Barcelona coach Hansi Flick felt Eric García's early red card was the turning point in Thursday's 2-1 defeat to Monaco and insisted his side are strong enough to progress in the new-look Champions League.García was dismissed after just 10 minutes for a last-man challenge before goals from Maghnes Akliouche and George Ilenikhena, either side of Lamine Yamal's equaliser, earned the Ligue 1 side three points at the Stade Louis II stadium.The loss was Barça's first defeat under Flick following an impressive start to the campaign which has so far yielded five successive wins in LaLiga."I think we defended with a lot of passion," the German coach said in a news conference after the game. "The goal from Lamine brought us back to 1-1. We had chances. At the end, we tried to stay in the game with a compact defence, close together, but you can also see that [Monaco] bring a lot of players in with huge speed. It was not easy to defend."