{"id":279050,"date":"2025-10-05T07:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T07:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/279050\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T07:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T07:53:11","slug":"put-up-or-shut-up-barcelona-stars-lamine-yamal-and-pedri-should-stay-humble-and-focus-solely-on-improving-after-being-given-a-lesson-by-psg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/279050\/","title":{"rendered":"Put up or shut up! Barcelona stars Lamine Yamal and Pedri should stay humble and focus solely on improving after being given a lesson by PSG"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lamine Yamal went out of his way to hype up his return to the Barcelona line-up for Wednesday night’s Champions League clash with Paris Saint-Germain at the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys. The 18-year-old posted a clip on his Instagram account from the movie ‘The Devil’s Advocate’ in which Al Pacino’s character, John Milton, discusses the effects of pressure: “Some people, you squeeze ’em, they focus; others fold. Can you summon your talent at will? Can you deliver on a deadline? Can you sleep at night?”<\/p>\n

Yamal then posted a picture of himself from Spain’s Euro 2024 triumph, accompanied by the words: “Pressure? I’m back and the mission is back too.” The mission in question was Barcelona’s bid to prove themselves the best team in Europe – which Yamal’s team-mate Pedri insisted they already were on the eve of the game against PSG.<\/a><\/p>\n

Admittedly, there’s nothing wrong with self-belief; on the contrary, it’s absolutely essential at the highest level of sport. But there’s a fine line between confidence and arrogance, and the problem with big talk is that it can make you look ridiculous if you don’t back it up. Wednesday night was a perfect case in point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lamine Yamal went out of his way to hype up his return to the Barcelona line-up for Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":279051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1386,144251,24937,144249,144250,23958,1722,79794,76452,144252,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-279050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-barcelona-vs-paris-saint-germain","10":"tag-champions-league","11":"tag-h-flick","12":"tag-l-yamal","13":"tag-laliga","14":"tag-paris-saint-germain","15":"tag-pedri","16":"tag-sevilla","17":"tag-sevilla-vs-barcelona","18":"tag-soccer","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115320481611394318","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}