“If you want to blame someone for this defeat, it’s my fault. It’s my fault. I had to rotate some players, it was necessary,” coach Hansi Flick explained and talking about Lamine Yamal sitting on the bench in Barcelona’s loss to Osasuna in round 8 of La Liga.
Coach Hansi Flick received his first defeat in La Liga after 7 wins
Coach Hansi Flick surprised everyone by leaving many of Barcelona’s key players on the bench, in addition to Lamine Yamal, including Raphinha. While captain goalkeeper Ter Stegen is absent for a long time due to a serious injury. Instead, the German strategist used many young stars and brought Pau Victor, Sergi Dominguez and Gerard Martin into the main squad, along with Pau Cubarsi and Pablo Torre.
Another shocking point, coach Hansi Flick also took striker Lewandowski off in the 70th minute when Barcelona was leading 2-1. These disturbances caused the Catalan team to have a poor match, constantly being led by Osasuna and ending up with their first shocking loss in La Liga.
Osasuna surprisingly led Barcelona 2-0 after the first half scored by Budimir and Zaragoza. At the beginning of the second half, Pau Victor shortened the score to 1-2 for Barcelona. But the home team scored consecutively with Budimir scoring the second goal in the 72nd minute and Bretones in the 85th minute to increase the score gap to 4-1. In the final minutes of the match, young star Lamine Yamal, after entering the field in the 59th minute, was able to score a goal to shorten the score to 2-4.
Lamine Yamal continuously scored for Barcelona
This is the 5th goal and 5 more assists for Lamine Yamal in all competitions so far. If this young star plays from the beginning of the match, it is likely that Barcelona will avoid the worst defeat from the beginning of the season, according to the newspaper. Marca.
“We have a lot of injured players, but there are no excuses. If you look at our squad right now, we only have 3 midfielders and 1 defender playing in the attacking position. “It’s not easy, but we accept it,” coach Hansi Flick said.
Barcelona’s loss will help two opponents in Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid, who are about to play the derby at 2:00 a.m. on September 30, have the opportunity to shorten the score gap in the La Liga rankings. Barcelona is still leading with 21 points after 8 matches, behind Real Madrid currently has 17 points and Atletico Madrid 15 points.