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Lamine Yamal pulled up injured when scoring the winning goal for Barcelona in their La Liga win against Celta Vigo.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Published On 23 Apr 2026<\/span>23 Apr 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The consensus World Cup favourite could \u200cbe in danger of missing its top attacking option after Spanish \u2060forward Lamine Yamal \u2060sustained an injury while playing for Barcelona on Wednesday in a La Liga match.<\/p>\n According to reports, club officials believe Yamal sustained a \u2060torn hamstring, though a full prognosis won\u2019t be known until he undergoes scans on Thursday.<\/p>\n list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n The 18-year-old superstar drew a foul that led to a penalty kick, \u2060which Yamal stepped up and scored in the 40th minute against visiting Celta Vigo. However, once the ball hit the net, Yamal didn\u2019t celebrate. Instead, he went down injured, clutching his left hamstring.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have to wait,\u201d Barcelona \u200ccoach Hansi Flick said after the game. \u201cWe have to see what it is. There is something. He felt it. After the goal, he would not leave the pitch without reason.<\/p>\n \u201cSo it\u2019s something. Something happened. Hopefully it\u2019s not so bad, but we have to wait until tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n Midfielder Pedri, Yamal\u2019s teammate with both Barca and the Spanish national team, said, according to ESPN: \u201cHopefully Lamine will only miss \u2060a few weeks. I wish him the best of luck. \u2060He needs to remain calm because he\u2019s young and will surely recover well\u201d.<\/p>\n The goal was Yamal\u2019s 16th in 28 La Liga matches this season (his 24th in 45 games in all competitions), and \u2060led Barcelona to a 1-0 win. The result leaves Barcelona with a nine-point lead on second-place Real Madrid in \u2060the league standings, so Barca are comfortably on course \u2060to claim the league title, regardless of Yamal\u2019s health.<\/p>\n The bigger question is whether the injury could impact Spain\u2019s chances at the World Cup this summer in North America.<\/p>\n Spain are scheduled for Group H \u200cmatches on June 15 against Cape Verde and on June 21 against Saudi Arabia, both in Atlanta, then play Uruguay on June 26 in Zapopan, Mexico.<\/p>\n Spain won \u200cUEFA \u200cEuro 2024, in part due to contributions from the then-16-year-old Yamal. A sublime playmaker and finisher, Yamal has six goals in 25 career appearances for the Spanish national team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Lamine Yamal pulled up injured when scoring the winning goal for Barcelona in their La Liga win against Celta Vigo. Published On 23 Apr 202623 Apr 2026 The consensus World Cup favourite could \u200cbe in danger of missing its top attacking option after Spanish \u2060forward Lamine Yamal \u2060sustained an injury while playing for Barcelona on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n
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