{"id":649914,"date":"2026-10-18T06:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T06:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/649914\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T06:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T06:36:13","slug":"the-best-player-in-the-world-hansi-flick-makes-huge-lamine-yamal-claim-after-barcelona-star-shines-in-5-2-demolition-of-real-betis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/649914\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The best player in the world&#8217; &#8211; Hansi Flick makes huge Lamine Yamal claim after Barcelona star shines in 5-2 demolition of Real Betis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flick did not hold back in his praise for Lamine Yamal following the winger&#8217;s masterclass in a 5-2 victory over Real Betis at La Cartuja. The German tactician, who has seen many world-class talents throughout his career with Bayern Munich and the German national team, suggested that the 19-year-old has now surpassed his peers to become the leading figure in the game. Flick&#8217;s comments came after Yamal orchestrated a dominant attacking display that kept the Catalan giants firmly at the top of the La Liga table.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you see the first goal he scored, it&#8217;s incredible; right now he is the best player in the world,&#8221; Flick told the media during his post-match press conference. &#8220;I am very happy with his performance and that is what I want to say. Of course, he has pressure, he is 19 years old and has played every game, but he is 100% focused and committed and he is very good, his performance has been incredible and his attitude, and that is how great players are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With this result, we had to change him, it was clear, and I told him that I was very proud because he had played a fantastic game,&#8221; the coach added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flick did not hold back in his praise for Lamine Yamal following the winger&#8217;s masterclass in a 5-2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1998,130985,85,46,78591,18617,85262,283468,105],"class_list":["post-649914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-barcelona","tag-h-flick","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-l-yamal","tag-laliga","tag-real-betis","tag-real-betis-vs-barcelona","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}