Yamal injury complicated, return date uncertain, says Barca coach Flick

Barcelona manager Hansi Flick said Saturday Lamine Yamal’s groin wounded is not elemental to heal from and formed uncertainty implicit a imaginable instrumentality date.

The Spanish champions said Yamal would beryllium retired for two-to-three weeks successful a connection connected Friday, but Flick suggested the 18-year-old winger’s lack could perchance beryllium longer.

Yamal volition miss World Cup qualifiers with Spain and is aiming to instrumentality earlier Barcelona look Real Madrid successful a Clasico astatine the Santiago Bernabeu connected October 26.

“This wounded is not truthful easy, similar a musculus (injury), we person this acquisition with (those), the coaches, the therapists.

“With this benignant of injury, it’s not casual to accidental now, okay, helium tin play successful 2 weeks, successful 3 weeks oregon 4 weeks, truthful he’s capable to play successful the Clasico — this is not possible.

“We person to wait… we person to negociate his (work) load. He volition bid with our betterment team, truthful for the adjacent weeks helium is with them, we person to spell measurement by measurement and person to spot however his improvement is.”

Yamal suffered a groin wounded portion playing with Spain successful September, missing 4 games earlier returning to enactment past week.

The teenager, precocious voted the 2nd champion subordinate successful the satellite astatine the Ballon d’Or gala, played against Paris Saint-Germain successful the Champions League connected Wednesday, suffering a recurrence of his injury.

Flick said helium had spoken to Yamal connected Saturday and the winger gave him affirmative news.

“I spoke with him contiguous and it’s overmuch amended than before, but it’s not good,” said the coach, up of Sunday’s La Liga clash against Sevilla.

Flick criticised Spain manager Luis de la Fuente aft Yamal played against Bulgaria and Turkey with pain-killing injections.

De la Fuente said Friday helium expected Flick to person much “empathy” having been a nationalist squad manager himself, but the German stood by his words.

“I don’t regret this, I privation to support my players,” added Flick.

“It’s done now, for maine it’s over, we person to look forwards… the important happening is that we negociate this together, the clubs and the federation.”

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