Overview

• Lamine Yamal returned from Spain duty with a pelvis/hip issue and sat out Barcelona’s 6-0 win over Valencia.
• Emerging reports say he is improving but training separately and likely to miss the trip to Newcastle, with no official confirmation from the club.
• Hansi Flick stood by his earlier remarks, telling Movistar+, “I said the words I said and nothing more.”
• RFEF sources have denied Flick’s claim that the national team used painkillers to enable Yamal to play, leaving the accounts in dispute.
• Barcelona recorded their first La Liga win under Flick without Yamal, with the coach praising the team’s collective display.