{"id":81149,"date":"2026-09-05T11:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T11:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/81149\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T11:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T11:38:12","slug":"barcelona-boss-flick-hoping-yamal-can-face-valencia-after-knock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/81149\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona boss Flick hoping Yamal can face Valencia after knock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona coach Hansi Flick is hoping star forward Lamine Yamal is fit to face Valencia in La Liga on Sunday after taking a knock.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old winger did not train with his teammates on Saturday but instead worked by himself at the training ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor tomorrow we have to wait, I cannot say it today,\u201d Flick told reporters Saturday. \u201cWe have to decide if it\u2019s better that he rests or he starts from the beginning, I\u2019ll speak with him and we\u2019ll decide that. Lamine is a player who likes to play football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flick said Yamal will travel with the team to Mestalla stadium, where Barca is looking to continue its 100 percent start to the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe trained separately, and everything was good. He will travel with us tomorrow. He took a hit, and he had some pain, so we said he should train separately. After the training, he said everything was good, so he will travel, and hopefully he can play tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yamal impressed in the 5-2 win over Rayo Vallecano on Monday, netting his first two goals of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Rivals Real Madrid slipped up in a 1-0 defeat at Real Betis on Friday, giving champions Barca the chance to establish themselves as sole league leaders.<\/p>\n<p>MORE DETAILS | <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/football\/la-liga\/real-betis-vs-real-madrid-player-ratings-mbappe-penalty-save-mounrinho-team-loses-0-1\/article71430995.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mbappe denied late as Mourinho\u2019s boys lose 0-1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you see the game yesterday, Real Madrid also played well&#8230; they had big, big chances,\u201d said Flick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is football, (slipping up) can always happen. For us it\u2019s important that we focus on ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New arrival Gabriel Jesus is likely to begin on the bench with winger Raphinha staying as the starting striker after notching five goals in three games playing out of position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this moment (Raphinha) is doing really great,\u201d explained Flick. \u201cHe\u2019s the best option for us at the moment in this position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Sep 05, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona coach Hansi Flick is hoping star forward Lamine Yamal is fit to face Valencia in La Liga&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30365,30361,30364,222,30360,30367,30368,665,223,2319,930,30362,30358,301,6520,938,30359,6514,6334,11499,30366,30363,30369,30370,95,2863],"class_list":["post-81149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-valencia","tag-barca-news","tag-barcelona-injury-news","tag-barcelona-match-today","tag-barcelona-news","tag-barcelona-playing-xi","tag-barcelona-predicted-lineup","tag-barcelona-squad-vs-valencia","tag-barcelona-vs-valencia","tag-fc-barcelona","tag-football-news","tag-hansi-flick","tag-hansi-flick-lamine-yamal","tag-hansi-flick-press-conference","tag-la-liga","tag-la-liga-news","tag-lamine-yamal","tag-lamine-yamal-fitness","tag-lamine-yamal-injury","tag-lamine-yamal-injury-update","tag-lamine-yamal-news","tag-lamine-yamal-stats","tag-lamine-yamal-update","tag-mestalla-stadium","tag-sportstar-football","tag-valencia","tag-valencia-cf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}