{"id":81151,"date":"2026-09-05T11:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T11:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/81151\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T11:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T11:39:11","slug":"barcelonas-hansi-flick-hopeful-that-lamine-yamal-will-be-fit-to-face-valencia-after-missing-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/81151\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona\u2019s Hansi Flick hopeful that Lamine Yamal will be fit to face Valencia after missing training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona head coach Hansi Flick says he is \u201chopeful\u201d that winger Lamine Yamal will be available to face Valencia on Sunday despite having trained separately from his teammates.<\/p>\n<p>Flick confirmed that the 19-year-old did not train with the rest of the team on Saturday due to a knock, but said he will be eligible for Barcelona\u2019s fourth game of the La Liga season.<\/p>\n<p>Spain international Yamal scored twice in Barcelona\u2019s last La Liga game, the 2-0 victory over Rayo Vallecano on August 31.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe got a knock and had some pain,\u201d the German coach said in his pre-match press conference on Saturday. \u201cWe decided it was better if he trained separately today, and that was the reason why. After the training session, he said everything was good, so he will travel and hopefully can play tomorrow\u201d.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Last training session before \ud835\udc15\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc25\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc27\ud835\udc1c\ud835\udc22\ud835\udc1a-\ud835\udc01\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc2b\ud835\udc1c\u0327\ud835\udc1a \ud83e\udee1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p5LxtsVfR4\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/p5LxtsVfR4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FCBarcelona\/status\/2096165630751703345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona have the chance to take advantage of Real Madrid\u2019s first defeat of the season. Jose Mourinho\u2019s side lost to Real Betis on Friday, meaning the Catalans could be three points ahead of their biggest rivals if they beat Valencia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReal Madrid played well and had big chances, but this is football, and it can happen that you lose,\u201d said Flick. \u201cFor us it\u2019s important to focus on ourselves\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The 61-year-old also confirmed the new choice of captains in the team. Raphinha has been selected as the new Barca captain, following the departure of Marc-Andre ter Stegen and Ronald Araujo this summer. Yamal has also entered the leadership group this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, it was important to have two captains I decided on (Raphinha and Pedri), and then three of the other players had to be picked by the team through a vote,\u201d confirmed Flick. \u201cThis is how we did it. The order is Raphinha, Pedri, Eric Garcia, Frenkie de Jong and Lamine Yamal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona head coach Hansi Flick says he is \u201chopeful\u201d that winger Lamine Yamal will be available to face&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,95],"class_list":["post-81151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-barcelona","tag-valencia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81151","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=81151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}