{"id":40424,"date":"2025-09-26T08:57:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T12:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/yamal-returns-barca-star-ready-to-face-real-sociedad\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T08:57:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T12:57:33","slug":"yamal-returns-barca-star-ready-to-face-real-sociedad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/yamal-returns-barca-star-ready-to-face-real-sociedad\/","title":{"rendered":"!Yamal Returns! Barca Star Ready to Face Real Sociedad"},"content":{"rendered":"Good news for Barcelona fans. Lamine Yamal has confirmed his return for the LaLiga match against Real Sociedad this Sunday, after missing the last four games due to a groin injury.\n\nThe young 18-year-old player has not participated since before the September international break, missing out on Bar\u00e7a&#8217;s victories against Valencia, Newcastle United, Getafe and Real Oviedo.\n\nThe Blaugrana striker shared his enthusiasm on social media with a video that compiles the best moments of his short but promising career.\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lamineyamal\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lamine Yamal Instagram post<\/a><\/p>\n\nBefore his injury, Yamal had had an impressive start to the season, scoring two goals and assisting in another two in the first three LaLiga matches.\n\nSubsequently, he provided three more assists in Spain&#8217;s victories in the World Cup qualifiers against Bulgaria and Turkey, although his participation in those matches was not well received by the Bar\u00e7a coach, Hansi Flick.\n\nYamal joined the Spanish national team with a minor groin problem and aggravated the injury while with the national team, leading Flick to accuse La Roja of not taking care of their young players.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0908%2Fr1542749_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Lamine Yamal\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n<em>Lamine Yamal could return for Barcelona&#8217;s match against Real Sociedad this Sunday.<\/em>\n\nThe Spanish coach, Luis de la Fuente, downplayed Flick&#8217;s concerns, with the German coach stating that &#8220;he can live with that&#8221;.\n\nMeanwhile, Bar\u00e7a is awaiting Raphinha&#8217;s fitness for the match against Real Sociedad this weekend.\n\nThe Brazilian striker was substituted in the second half of Thursday&#8217;s 3-1 victory over Oviedo, and Flick indicated that the decision was precautionary and does not expect a serious injury.\n\nRaphinha will undergo tests at the training facilities on Friday.\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><p>De la Fuente: Doesn&#8217;t care about Flick&#8217;s complaints about Yamal<\/p><\/li><li><p>Date of the first Cl\u00e1sico revealed<\/p><\/li><li><p>Tebas: Yamal was only denied the Ballon d&#8217;Or because of his age<\/p><\/li><\/ul>\n\nIn other matters, left-back Alejandro Balde is close to returning to action after recovering from a hamstring injury, but Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen and Gavi, who this week was announced to be out for up to five months, are long-term absentees.\n\nMidfielder Ferm\u00edn L\u00f3pez will also be out for the next three weeks after suffering a muscle injury in the victory against Getafe last Sunday.\n\nThe Bar\u00e7a remains undefeated after seven matches in all competitions this season, with the 1-1 draw in August against Rayo Vallecano being the only match they haven&#8217;t won, which puts them two points behind the provisional leader of LaLiga, Real Madrid.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for Barcelona fans. Lamine Yamal has confirmed his return for the LaLiga match against Real Sociedad this Sunday, after missing the last four games due to a groin injury. The young 18-year-old player has not participated since before the September international break, missing out on Bar\u00e7a&#8217;s victories against Valencia, Newcastle United, Getafe and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[156,158,1426,5425],"class_list":{"0":"post-40424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-laliga","10":"tag-lamine-yamal","11":"tag-real-sociedad"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}