Barcelona star Lamine Yamal is already a star on the age of simply 17, having received the Euros and turn out to be arguably probably the most proficient participant in one among Spain’s behemoths already. That a lot was evident when he was taken off in stoppage time in opposition to Atalanta on Wednesday evening, with the rating deadlocked at 2-2.
The Blaugrana had been pushing for the winner of their remaining Champions League group part recreation, figuring out that it could safe them high spot forward of Liverpool. But in stoppage time, Flick determined to place Pau Victor on instead of his star ahead. {The teenager}, strolling alongside the sideline to see Flick, didn’t look pleased about it.
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Nonetheless after the match, he cleared up the incident, as quoted by Cadena SER.
“All of us wish to play. Clearly, I wish to play as many minutes as I can, however so do my teammates who’re on the bench. [Flick told me] To be calm, that it was an excellent recreation and now to concentrate on La Liga.”
Hansi Flick: “I am very pleased with the second place. It is an incredible success. We had a troublesome recreation at the moment. We may have defended higher.”
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His supervisor was additionally requested about Lamine Yamal’s lower than happy expression on the finish of the sport.
“He’s disillusioned, nevertheless it was on the finish that I wished to vary one thing and I might say that in a couple of minutes we may have received, nevertheless it was 2-2 and I’m pleased too.”
In the meantime vice-captain Raphinha empathised together with his teammate, explaining to Diario AS that he understood the place he was coming from.
“I perceive it very nicely. He’s a spectacular participant, it’s comprehensible that he will get offended. I perceive his anger at not ending the sport as a result of it has occurred to me many instances. However he did very nicely, he helped the workforce and scored a purpose. I attempt to assist him and I can say that I’m very pleased together with his efficiency at the moment and all through the season.”
It’s straightforward to neglect that Lamine Yamal remains to be extremely younger as a consequence of how pure he appears on the pitch, on Wednesday evening shrugging off Sead Kolasinac to attain his tenth purpose of the season. To this point he has collected 2,240 minutes throughout 28 video games. Of these appearances, 25 have been begins and he has 22 purpose contributions. He has additionally missed 5 video games by way of damage.