{"id":180278,"date":"2025-09-30T15:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/180278\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T15:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:09:08","slug":"hansi-flick-sends-message-to-lamine-yamal-ahead-of-barcelonas-champions-league-clash-with-psg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/180278\/","title":{"rendered":"Hansi Flick sends message to Lamine Yamal ahead of Barcelona\u2019s Champions League clash with PSG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Barcelona manager Hansi Flick sent a message to teenage superstar Lamine Yamal ahead of the Blaugrana\u2019s monster Champions League clash with PSG on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, the German was asked about Lamine and stressed the importance of focus and hard work for the teenager, and made it clear he wants to see a strong defensive effort from Yamal on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cFor me, hyping a player up so much isn\u2019t good. We\u2019re focused on working hard. He\u2019s talented and can go very high, and he can reach even higher levels, but he has to work hard. It\u2019s not just about how good you are with the ball, but you also have to work defensively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">PSG have a devastating attack despite the injuries to their starting front three of Ousmane Dembele, D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Dou\u00e9 and Kvicha Kvaratskhelia, and left-back Nuno Mendes is a key piece of their offensive system. Yamal must be prepared to track back and defend against Mendes, and his coach has sent him a public message about it. It\u2019s now up to Lamine to rise up to the challenge, with and without the ball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona manager Hansi Flick sent a message to teenage superstar Lamine Yamal ahead of the Blaugrana\u2019s monster Champions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,115993,596,85],"class_list":["post-180278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-barcelona-uefa-champions-league","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}