Surprising Barcelona Fights for Treble Under Head Coach Hansi Flick

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Barcelona coach Hansi Flick expressed his surprise at the team's success this season, with the Catalan giants currently competing for three trophies in March. Taking over from Xavi Hernandez last summer after a trophy-less campaign, Flick's Barcelona now leads La Liga, is in the Copa del Rey semi-finals, and will face Benfica in the Champions League last 16. Despite a hectic schedule ahead, Flick remains optimistic and has no complaints about the team's performance. Next up for Barcelona is a match against Real Sociedad in La Liga on Sunday.

"The team is doing really great, they are focussed, no excuses, just focus on the next match," said the coach.

"It's not easy to manage everything, we have to accept it... we'll give everything.

"We have three competitions, we will fight for three trophies and when we started the season, nobody expected it would be like that on the first of March, but the team is doing great."

Flick said he would shuffle his pack against La Real ahead of the visit to Lisbon on Wednesday in the Champions League.

"We need fresh legs and tomorrow is also a good day to (do) this and we will have changes, but I will not say which changes we do," said the coach.

Flick said Danish defender Andreas Christensen had suffered a new injury setback.

The 28-year-old last played for the club in August before an Achilles injury ruled him out for several months.

After returning he suffered a calf injury and although he was set to return to the squad against Real Sociedad, Flick said that was no longer possible.

"We have Andreas and what I can say now is he got injured in this training session, so he was an option for tomorrow, but again he was injured," said Flick.

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"We are looking now how heavy is the injury, hopefully it's not so (bad)."

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