Lamine Yamal returned to stay on the FC Barcelona bench 167 days after his last substitution with the Barça team. The one from Esplugues de Llobregat, indisputable in Hansi Flick's XI this season, entered the German coach's massive rotations during the visit to Osasuna (4-2). Although the plan did not go well at all due to the culé's hard fall, the rest was necessary for the youth player, who has already accumulated 737 minutes of action in nine games in 2024/25.
In the League, the '19' had not been left out of the starting XI since last April 13, during the visit to Cádiz (0-1). That day he played 28 minutes, entering the complement for Vitor Roque with the Barça team winning by the minimum. Three days later he would also play only half an hour against Paris Saint-Germain, but this time due to the early expulsion of Ronald Araújo. The youth player was the 'sacrificed' to rebuild the culé defense (Iñigo Martínez entered in his place), an insufficient change to avoid the culé disaster in the Champions League quarterfinals (1-4).
Lamine made Barça dream of the epic in injury time
On Saturday, Yamal came on for Pau Víctor in the 60th minute, six minutes after the goal scored by the former Barça Atlètic striker. The team reacted after the break, but curiously it got worse with the changes made by Flick. In addition to Lamine, the coach replaced Raphinha with Pablo Torre, but Barça once again became disorganized in the middle and, in the 70th minute, Sergi Domínguez's penalty on Budimir came that ended the game.
Bretones made it 4-1 in the 85th minute with a great goal from the edge of the area, but the Barça star responded with the same formula four minutes later, putting Barça back in the game. And, although the epic was impossible at that time, Osasuna suffered the seven minutes of injury time given by the main Cuadra Fernández, with a header against the crossbar by Ferran Torres after a great center from Lamine and a possible penalty from Bretones on the '19' for a grab.