00:00El hecho de que Hamza está en la línea porque me encantó el día anterior.
00:04No solo el día anterior, el primer partido de la presión con el brazo que hizo, el penalti que provocó.
00:10Y luego el hecho de que se siente que ha estado en la primera vez por un tiempo largo que
00:16ha sido.
00:17Tenemos que recordar que es tan, tan joven.
00:19Claro que será un top scorer, no hay duda.
00:24Y el objetivo del día anterior me recuerda mucho a Lewandowski.
00:29Sí, acrobatic.
00:31La forma de levantar la pierna, era la izquierda.
00:35Él sabía que no podía llegar con la izquierda, así que se sentía a la izquierda.
00:39Y yo me decía, Lewandowski en ese momento.
00:43Lewandowski left, pero tenemos Hamza.
00:45He ha impresionado, ¿no?
00:47He's had a bit of a chance, porque Lewandowski left.
00:50Ferran wins the World Cup y luego leaves, of course.
00:52So, he wasn't going to be making pre-season anyway.
00:54Pero, it's given Hamza this golden chance.
00:56We haven't had a natural number nine in all of pre-season.
00:59Still don't right now.
01:00And he's starting this game four or five days before La Liga begins for Barça.
01:04He must be in dreamland, no?
01:06Yeah, of course.
01:07And also against his former club.
01:09Like, you tell Hamza five years ago, he will be playing as a starting in the Spotify Camino against his
01:15former club.
01:16Like, he would never believe that was possible.
01:19With Rafinha and Lamin Amali, the side of him too.
01:21Yeah, of course.
01:22Like, he's in a dream, but I think he's also taking the opportunity.
01:27The other day against Basilea, he entered the second half and I think his minutes were amazing.
01:32Also, I felt like Lamin and Hansa, they understood each other quite well.
01:38And that's, of course, important.
01:40And let's see, because I remember when I was a player that playing against my former team was always pleasure.
01:45But I always played even better.
01:47Like, it felt like that level you show against your former team is always more because you want to show,
01:53you know?
01:53Look at the player I became.
01:55And I'm pretty sure that the Hamza also has his feelings today with him.
01:59I'm just looking at the Barça bench as well here, Ratti.
02:01We've got Koubar C, Gavi, Pedri, Szczesny, Adeyemi, Christensen, Gordon, Olmo, Alvaro Cortez, Bisiwo, Brian Fariñas, Tunkara, Eder Aller, Orian
02:12Goren and Jordi Pesquer.
02:14So, not bad.
02:15A strong bench is what you would say.
02:17Good depth as well.
02:18But you look at the names, some of them there.
02:19Gavi, Koubar C, Pedri, Adeyemi, Christensen, Gordon, Olmo, plus all the youngsters we've got.
02:24I mean, there's an awful lot there, isn't there?
02:26A lot of depth in the squad.
02:28Yeah, there's a lot.
02:29I'm impressed, but I'm really happy also to see the fact that Lamin is starting because that means there's no
02:35injury.
02:35That we forgot about that injury before the World Cup.
02:38And that's, of course, great news.
02:39And then we have Pedri, Gavi and many players that just won the World Cup and they did amazing this
02:46summer.
02:47So, it's outstanding, the bench we have.
02:50And then the youngsters, because we were talking before about Xavi's part, but what about Jordi Pesquer?
02:55Because I didn't know about him and he impressed me quite well.
02:58I don't think anyone did, to be fair.
03:00I mean, and the way he's come in has been unbelievable.
03:02Well, you know what?
03:03When he came on at half-time against Basel, a left-back, I thought this is a bit of a
03:06test for him.
03:07I want to see him here because I thought he impressed in the other games.
03:10I thought, let's watch him.
03:11He dealt with almost every situation very well, to be fair.
03:13So, you can see why Flick likes him.
03:16I was just thinking here, Irati, you look at this starting line-up here, a few days before that game
03:20against Elche.
03:20If you're Xavi Espart or Hamza Abdelkarim, you must be thinking, I've got a very good chance of playing from
03:26the start against Elche.
03:27Yeah, I think so.
03:28You must be thinking, especially Hamza, he's pretty thinking, if I get a goal again tonight, there's no reason why
03:35I'm not starting in match day one of La Liga.
03:37Which is something unthinkable, a few weeks ago even, to be honest.
03:40I think it was your Enz that asked the other day Xavi Espart, especially about this, and he said, I'm
03:45just going to train every day at the same level.
03:47I'm going to take the opportunity by playing Trofeu Jean-Gamper Strijadam.
03:52Because he knew, you could see in his face, like, yeah, I might get started in La Liga.
03:57And it's not the same.
03:58Of course, they are happy to start a game in the preseason.
04:01It's a dream for them.
04:02But it's not the same starting today than starting in La Liga.
04:07And, of course, I know they have the opportunity.
04:10Yeah, it certainly isn't.
04:11But it is the last test for Barca of the preseason, which has included a week in England.
04:15They drew to Birmingham 2-0, lost that one on penalties.
04:18Then beat Nottingham Forest in a triangular, as we call it.
04:22It was a three-way match.
04:23We had a game against Forest, which we won, then lost against Udinese.
04:261-0 both of those.
04:28And then that one against Basel over on Sunday.
04:30That's been Barca's preseason.
04:32Without a doubt in the Basel game, the most complete performance from Barca.
04:34They were dominant.
04:35They had a lot of the first-teamers back in.
04:37And it was much more what you'd expect from a Barca performance.
04:42You're seeing images there of the Alakli coaching staff.
04:45Also of some of the Barca players who were out on the pitch earlier.
04:48Pedri Rodri, one of the main ones we'll be watching out for today, of course.
04:51And we are just moments away now from the official team presentation here at the Spotify Camp Nou.
04:58Excitements building in the stadium.
04:59The fans are starting to fill out the ground, too.
05:02And everyone here is getting their first few photos of the season.
05:06It's the start of the new season.
05:07It's photos. Even the referees are having photos.
05:08Yeah, it's even for them special to be here at the Spotify Camp Nou, of course.
05:13Pedri, Rodri said it yesterday.
05:15It's one of the best, if not the best stadium in the world.
05:18So everyone wants to enjoy here.
05:20Even the referees are doing that.
05:22And we saw before, indeed those images are from before, Pedri showing Rodri, no?
05:27This is your house now.
05:28Yeah.
05:28We scored there.
05:30We celebrate there.
05:31The fans are there.
05:32And I think it's also nice images to see.
05:35Yeah, they certainly are indeed.
05:37Well, there's going to be some really great games here next season.
05:41There really are for this upcoming campaign here.
05:43Imagine Champions League nights here with Rodri in the team.
05:46It's just going to be great fun.
05:47And of course, the market is still open, people.
05:50So there's still potentially more to come.
05:52Well, I can tell you that things are starting to heat up down there at Pitchside.
05:56We're starting to get moments away here from the big presentation of the first team for this upcoming season.
06:03And plenty of fans also are in the ground now, too, as you can see.
06:07Yeah, there's many people entering right now at the Spotify.
06:10The match starts at eight.
06:12Yeah.
06:12But we have the presentation before.
06:14It's true that in summer, it's easier to get to the Spotify.
06:18I'm not because moving in Barcelona now and I was like with car and fully transferred.
06:23It's easier.
06:24Easy. Yeah.
06:24But I think it was that warm today that people took until the last meal with the AC at home
06:29to get here.
06:30And rightfully so.
06:31It's incredible out there.
06:33It is.
06:34Thankfully, we're lovely and cool here in the in the studio.
06:36And we've got a great view of the pitch, too, haven't we?
06:37For what we hope is going to be a really fun watch and a great game indeed here between Barca
06:43and Al-Akri here.
06:44The final one before the season starts.
06:47A reminder of how Barca gets started in La Liga.
06:49First day is against Elche away from them.
06:52And that's Sunday night.
06:53Then Thursday night here at the Spotify Cup.
06:56Now we face Athletic Club and then it's Rayo on the following Monday.
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