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Barcelona, final night time, gained a precious lead over SL Benfica of their Champions League Spherical of 16 encounter, with Raphinha scoring the winner.
In a recreation the place Barcelona have been down to 10 males within the twenty second minute, the membership needed to make some tactical changes and play a comparatively defensive recreation as a result of Pau Cubarsi’s early purple card.
For sure, this pressured coach Hansi Flick to make some substitutions, together with taking off Lamine Yamal early within the second half – one thing that didn’t go too effectively with the younger attacker.
Certainly, Yamal appeared visibly pissed off after being subbed off because the teen believed that he might have made a distinction on the pitch. However Flick determined to exchange him with Ferran Torres.
Flick approached Yamal after his substitution
Yamal needed to depart the pitch early on within the second half (Picture by Gualter Fatia/Getty Photos)
As reported by SPORT, Flick was observant of Yamal’s response after being substituted. However as a substitute of ignoring the attacker’s frustration, the German coach approached the participant, providing him a handshake.
Though Yamal was visibly upset, he reciprocated and even listened to the justification given by Flick, though he didn’t appear all too eager on listening to the argument.
Flick defined that the explanation for his substitution was Benfica’s game-plan, which gave the impression to be catering all the way down to their left-hand channel, with Alvaro Carreras, specifically, trying fairly harmful.
Subsequently, the Barcelona coach felt Jules Kounde wanted a bit extra defensive assist for right-back Jules Kounde.
In any case, Flick’s justification and phrases of encouragement to Yamal made certain that there wasn’t any type of friction going down between the 2.
