“Yeah. “All the members of the squad are ready to play, except Gavi and Christensen,” responds Hansi Flick. The question is about Lamine Yamal. The Barça winger stayed on the bench in the duel against Athletic Club, after a start to 2026 in which an illness has prevented him from training normallyalthough he did play against Espanyol and ended up leaving for a while in the semifinal even though the game was resolved. The aura he has was immediately noticeable, with the public shouting when he entered and when he touched a ball. Against Real Madrid he aims to participate from the beginning, although with less focus on him than in the last Clásico.
Carvajal’s words about his fight with Lamine
The League match played at the Bernabéu began and ended in Lamine, although in the middle, in what is the course of the match, it could not be decisive. It started at controversial statements by the Blaugrana to Ibai about Madrid “stealing, complaining…”, in a context of jokes and hesitation, and ended up in pique with Carvajalwho reproached him for those words at the end of a duel that Xabi Alonso’s team won 2-1. «He is young and was not successful, but he defends his own. He’s a great kid, I don’t wish him the best tomorrow, but he stayed there. “There is no need to give it more importance than it has,” said the captain of Real Madrid, who was injured that day and can reappear in this new Clásico.
During the match, Lamine was not influential, in a strange performance, apparently limited by the pubalgia he suffered, since it is not that he was more or less fine against the good marking of Carreras, it is that he did not even face him one on one. He tried more in the second half, but without success.
MVP of November and December in LaLiga
Those were days in which Lamine had too much prominence, due to his inappropriate words hours before such a match or due to a trip to Croatia while injured. The focus on Barcelona’s teenage star is not so exaggerated this time, both in this match and in general, and thus, more quietly, He has won the League MVP in November and December. In the last duels, the praise has gone to teammates like Joan García, Raphinha and Fermín. Lamine stopped celebrating goals by wearing the crown (it was speculated that he did it for his ex-partner Nicki Nicole), although he also cannot fight against his age and the times we live in, and has opened a YouTube channel.
Numbers similar to last year
On the green, leaving the physical problems behind, he has good numbers, without everything being focused on him, except, for example, the Champions League clash with Bruges, in which he had an impressive individual performance, although the duel ended 3-3. Their figures are very similar to last year at this point. He has nine goals and eleven assists in 22 games. In the 2024-25 campaign, before the Super Cup final, he had also played 22 games, in which he scored 7 goals and 12 passes that ended in a goal. He finished the course with 18 and 25 in 55 appearances. It is true that sometimes their contribution goes beyond these “big” numbers, which is why it conditions the rival, the vigilance of two and even three opponents. At only 18 years old, it will be his ninth Classic. He has won four and lost four. He never tied.
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