Question marks over the fitness of a number of Barça’s strikers mean that Bojan Krkic thinks he may be playing on Sunday at San Mamés. He also says that he’s happy to play anywhere in attack.
With Henry and Messi doubtful for Sunday’s game and Iniesta still sidelined with injury,
Barcelona could have a new strike force in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup at San Mamés.
Bojan says that Guardiola has yet to tell the squad who will be playing: “He hasn’t
said anything and with so little time to recover from injury maybe I’ll play, though I hope
everyone’s fit”.
Bojan thinks the game will be “different” to the Cup Final and that Bilbao will
make things hard for Barça. Nonetheless he still sees the Catalan outfit as favourites.
No pressure
Bojan says that being in the starting line-up on Sunday would not put any more pressure on
him. “There’s no added pressure because I’ve always been a regular
striker,” he argued. “Sunday’s game is like any other where we’ll be going
for the win.”
He also says he’s quite happy playing anywhere in the forward line and not just as a
central striker. “They’re all attacking positions and I’m happy in any of
them,” he pointed out. “I just have to show the boss I can do a job there.”
Pedro-Jeffren-Bojan link up
Bojan spoke about the possibility of teaming up with Pedro and Jeffren.
“All three of us have shown we can play and are good enough to be in Barça’s
attack,” he argued. “You have to keep faith with the academy players because they have
the quality and the rest will come from there.”
Bojan says he knows Jeffren better as Pedro was in the Barça C side when Bojan played for
Barça Atlètic.
He thinks that the less pressure is put on the players the better. “It’s a
two-leg fixture,” he noted. “Pedro and Jeffren are young players, but any player would
like to play in this game at San Mamés with its special atmosphere.”
“You never stop learning”
As he begins his third season with the first team, Bojan
says the only thing he wants to do is to continue improving. “I always say that a footballer
never stops learning,” he argued. “I’m almost 19 and I’m at the start of
the learning curve, and even with the things I’m good at I try to do them better.”
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“Seeing Ibra play is great”
Bojan has a new strike partner in Zlatan Ibrahimovic, someone Bojan wants to learn a lot from.
“I need to learn a lot from him and from everyone else because they’re not the best in
the world for nothing,” he said. “It’s really great seeing him at first hand, how
he plays and moves about the park.”