{"id":315737,"date":"2025-10-19T10:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T10:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/315737\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T10:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T10:13:11","slug":"toni-fernandez-speaks-out-after-making-la-liga-debut-for-barcelona-against-girona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/315737\/","title":{"rendered":"Toni Fernandez speaks out after making La Liga debut for Barcelona against Girona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Barcelona youngster Toni Fernandez is hoping for more minutes after making his La Liga debut on Saturday against Girona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hansi Flick handed Fernandez a start and used him as a false 9 in the first half. The teenager admitted it had been a little difficult adjusting to the position but feels he is ready for more playing time with the senior squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI hadn\u2019t played for a while and was a bit clumsy as a false 9. But I believe I can perform well in any attacking position,\u201d he told the media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cNo doubt the level is much higher, and the pace is faster, but honestly, I see myself ready to help the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fernandez also revealed how Ronald Araujo told him he would score before he was sent on as a late substitute and grabbed the winning goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cBefore Araujo came on, he said \u2018I am going in as a number 9, and I\u2019m going to scoore,\u201d he added. \u201cWe all laughed on the bench\u2026 but that\u2019s exactly what happened when he came on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona youngster Toni Fernandez is hoping for more minutes after making his La Liga debut on Saturday against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":315738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1396,2618,1582,276,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-315737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-barcelona-la-liga","9":"tag-barcelona-team-news","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115400304596087315","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}