{
  "id": 8521459,
  "title": "Hansi Flick explains choosing Livaković over Szczęsny for Barcelona vs Sevilla",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/19/hansi-flick-explains-choosing-livakovic-over-szczesny-for-barcelona",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-19T19:35:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Yahoo Sports",
    "slug": "yahoo-sports",
    "url": "https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/hansi-flick-explains-choosing-livakovi-193500504.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Barcelona head coach Hansi Flick has shed light on his decision to select Dominik Livaković over Wojciech Szczęsny for their match against Sevilla. The Catalan giants are currently on a winning streak, seeking their seventh consecutive victory to defend their La Liga title. However, they are without star goalkeeper Joan García, who is nursing an injury sustained in a midweek match against Racing Santander. Initially, there were expectations that experienced Polish goalkeeper Wojciech Szczęsny would start from the bench similarly to his previous outing in the previous match against Racing. Nonetheless, Barcelona opted for summer signing Dominik Livaković as their goalkeeper. In a media briefing ahead of the game, Flick explained, \"Livaković over Szczesny? We analysed everything, and we decided that we needed a change in the goalkeeper position. And that’s what we did.\"",
  "summary": "Barcelona head coach Hansi Flick has provided an explanation for his decision to field Dominik Livaković over Wojciech Szczęsny from the off in the club’s latest outing.Barcelona are of course cur...",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Yahoo Sports",
        "title": "Why Hansi Flick keeps substituting Pedri despite his importance – report",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/19/why-hansi-flick-keeps-substituting-pedri-despite-his-importance-report",
        "published": "2026-09-19T07:25:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}