Lamine Yamal’s anger after Barcelona’s La Liga win downplayed by Flick

Yamal’s unhappiness astatine the extremity of the lucifer against Atletico Madrid was implicit missed scoring opportunities, Flick says.

Lamine Yamal’s evident choler astatine the extremity of Barcelona’s triumph implicit Atletico Madrid stemmed from his inability to people a extremity during the important La Liga fixture and was not linked to immoderate off-field incidents, says the Catalan club’s manager, Hansi Flick.

The Spanish guardant was visibly unhappy successful the closing moments of the closely fought match successful Madrid and did not observe with teammates when Robert Lewandowski scored the victor successful the 87th minute on Saturday.

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“He was a small spot angry,” La Liga leaders’ caput coach, Flick, told reporters aft the match.

The 18-year-old deed the station with a dinked effort aft Fermin Lopez laid the shot disconnected to him during the archetypal fractional successful a tense conflict connected the pitch.

A fewer minutes earlier, Yamal displayed large control, accomplishment and imaginativeness to person a shot successful his ain half, nutmeg an Atletico subordinate and supply an unfastened walk for Lopez successful beforehand of goal, but the 22-year-old failed to person it into a goal.

“He [Yamal] gave it his each but was unlucky erstwhile it came to scoring oregon providing the last pass,” the German manager said.

“In the end, everything is fine.

“Of course, helium has emotion. This was the game, with emotion, but he’s successful the dressing room, and everything is good.”

Lewandowski’s melodramatic precocious victor was celebrated by the Barcelona players connected the transportation and bench, but Yamal looked subdued arsenic helium trudged connected the transportation by himself.

Once the referee blew the full-time whistle, Yamal walked past Flick, who tried to placate his prima player, and the 2 exchanged a fewer words earlier the guardant headed backmost towards the dressing room.

Flick said Yamal’s reaction, oregon deficiency of it, was not “because of however helium played, helium played good”, and elaborated connected his prima player’s exasperation. “At the moment, helium does not person this luck that helium scores the goals, but it tin travel back.”

Yamal has been astatine the centre of an Islamophobia contention successful Spanish shot aft helium slammed anti-Muslim chants during his nationalist team’s affable lucifer against Egypt successful Barcelona connected Tuesday.

At the ⁠⁠RCDE Stadium adjacent Barcelona, the location crushed of La Liga nine Espanyol, Spanish supporters chanted “Whoever doesn’t leap is simply a Muslim” during the ⁠⁠World Cup warm-up match, which ended successful a goalless draw.

It was the latest successful a drawstring of akin incidents to overshadow Spanish shot successful caller years, with Real Madrid’s Brazilian attacker Vinicius Junior successful particular repeatedly racially abused.

Yamal is simply a Muslim subordinate whose begetter moved from Morocco to Spain. He issued a damning connection connected Instagram successful the aftermath of the controversy.

“I americium a Muslim. Yesterday astatine the stadium the chant ‘the 1 who doesn’t leap is the Muslim’ was heard,” helium posted connected Instagram successful the aftermath of the match.

“I cognize I was playing for the rival squad and it wasn’t thing idiosyncratic against me, but arsenic a Muslim idiosyncratic it doesn’t halt being disrespectful and thing intolerable.”

Yamal and Barcelona volition instrumentality to enactment against the aforesaid absorption connected Tuesday, arsenic they big the fourth-ranked Spanish squad successful the archetypal limb of their UEFA Champions League quarterfinal astatine the Camp Nou.

The fixture volition supply different accidental for the young subordinate to adhd to his extremity tally of 19 this season. He has scored 14 goals successful La Liga and 5 successful European competition.

“We person 3 days present to hole for the adjacent match,” Flick said erstwhile asked astir the upcoming fixture.

“It’s a precise important one, and helium [Yamal] volition beryllium successful a amended temper than aft the game.”