Barcelona has announced that Lamine Yamal has repeated the groin injury that he sustained last month during the international service and will miss the coming qualifications of Spain.
The 18-year-old winger, who is also excluded from this weekend’s La Liga Meeting with Villarreal, will be sidelined for up to three weeks, the club said Friday.
Yamal returned last weekend from an absence of four games and made an immediate impact as a replacement for the second half by setting up the winning goal in a 2-1 win over Real Sociedad. In the result, Barcelona Real Madrid jumped at the top of the La Liga table.
The teenager also played the entire midweek Champions League defeat against Paris Saint-German.
Barcelona: ‘The groin problem for Lamine Yamal has returned ‘
Hours after Yamal was mentioned in the Spain team to face Georgia and Bulgaria, Barcelona said his Recent injury was flare up again.
“The groin problem for Lamine Yamal has returned after the game to PSG,” said the club. “The player will miss the match against Sevilla and his recovery time will be estimated at two to three weeks.”
Yamal sustained the injury for the first time during the international break of September, when he played for Spain in matches against Bulgaria and Turkey.
His involvement led to a gap between club and country, where Barcelona manager Hansi Flick claimed that the national team had not managed not a slight injury. Yamal was only able to play after taking painkillers, the German said.
Barcelona Boss Hansi Flick: ‘Lamine played with the national team despite pain’
“Lamine played with the national team despite pain,” said Flick. “He had problems, played 79 and 73 minutes and did not even train between matches because of this pain. That is not really taking care of the players.”
Luis de la Fuente, the head coach of Spain, said he was surprised by the comments of the former Germany manager and denied that risks had been taken with Yamal.
“His comments that we are not taking care of players, surprised me because he was a national team coach and I believed he had that empathy,” said De la Fuente. “Here we take zero risks. The one who comes in comes healthy, fit to play. When they go back home, it is because we have judged that there was a risk of staying with us.
“When the [Turkey] The game ended, he had a bit of a problem. But I don’t choose players who have an injury. Our medical services have explained it, I explained it. If he had a problem after the game, I don’t know. ‘
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