{"id":590,"date":"2025-02-03T21:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T13:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/?p=590"},"modified":"2025-02-03T21:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T13:39:10","slug":"lamine-yamal-is-a-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/lamine-yamal-is-a-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Lamine Yamal is a genius&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"668\" src=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image.png 1000w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-768x513.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hansi Flick praised Barcelona&#8217;s narrow victory over Alaves, as his team was under \u201ca lot of pressure\u201d after Real Madrid&#8217;s defeat against Espanyol. He also had nice words for Lamine Yamal, of whom he said he is a \u201cgenius\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barcelona coach Hansi Flick said his team \u201chad a lot of pressure\u201d after Real Madrid&#8217;s 1-0 loss to Espanyol, and praised his players&#8217; response to beat Alaves (1-0) on Sunday and move to within four points of the La Liga lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor us, it&#8217;s a good situation, better than before, but we had to win today. The team did well, they had a lot of pressure and responded very well. In the second half, we tried to score with great chances. Alaves defended very well, they did a good job, but we deserved the three points\u201d, he summed up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the press room of the Estadio Olmpico Lluis Companys, Flick assessed that the break to attend to Pablo Paez Gavira &#8216;Gavi&#8217; and Tomas Conechny, after both collided with their heads in a fight for the ball, \u201chas not helped to regain the rhythm\u201d of the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGavi always wants to play, but we had to be careful. The doctor&#8217;s decision was to replace him and now I think he&#8217;s on his way home, he&#8217;s fine. Nothing has happened, that&#8217;s the good news,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flick noted that De Jong \u201cis improving a lot in defence\u201d and praised Robert Lewandowski, scorer of the winning goal, whom he called \u201cthe best No 9 in the world inside the box\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coach also described Lamine Yamal as \u201ca genius\u201d. \u201cI am very happy that he is playing for Bar\u00e7a. At 17 years old, he is doing very well in every game,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With 45 points, FC Barcelona sit third in the Spanish first division standings, behind leaders Real Madrid (49) and Atletico Madrid (48).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.besoccer.com\/match\/barcelona\/alaves\/20256536\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hansi Flick praised Barcelona&#8217;s narrow victory ov [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}