{"id":521141,"date":"2026-03-13T12:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T12:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/521141\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T12:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T12:45:08","slug":"barcelona-receive-major-boost-as-key-duo-back-in-training-ahead-of-sevilla-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/521141\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona receive major boost as key duo back in training ahead of Sevilla clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the 1-1 draw to Newcastle United earlier this week, FC Barcelona will be aiming to return to winning ways when they face Sevilla in La Liga on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Blaugrana currently have a four-point lead over second-placed Real Madrid, who take on Elche tomorrow, meaning the advantage could be reduced to only one point.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>With preparations underway for the game at the Spotify Camp Nou, Hansi Flick &amp; co. have received some positive news on the fitness front.<\/p>\n<p>Lamine Yamal and Eric Garcia train normally<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sport.es\/es\/noticias\/barca\/peligra-lamine-yamal-sevilla-127906383\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:SPORT;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;SPORT&quot;}\" class=\"link \">SPORT<\/a>, both Lamine Yamal and Eric Garcia were back training normally on the pitch today, indicating their availability for Sunday\u2019s clash vs Sevilla.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/barcelona-supersar-absent-from-training-ahead-of-sevilla-clash-due-to-discomfort\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Lamine missed the training session on Thursday due to some discomfort;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Lamine missed the training session on Thursday due to some discomfort&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Lamine missed the training session on Thursday due to some discomfort<\/a> and did not even attend the team dinner arranged by Ronald Araujo later in the night.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"692\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/890cbfd08018ac1c03809d05b3d21b66.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Back in training. (Photo by Stuart Franklin\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The issue was never considered something serious enough to put his participation against Sevilla in doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Now, according to SPORT, the Barcelona winger trained normally today and is expected to be available for Sunday\u2019s league match against Sevilla, which will also coincide with Barcelona\u2019s presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen whether Flick will decide to rest him with the Champions League match in mind, although doing so may be difficult given his importance to the team.<\/p>\n<p>As for Eric Garcia, the defender missed the Champions League match due to muscle overload and spent Thursday receiving treatment from the physiotherapists.<\/p>\n<p>But today, he was back training on the pitch normally with the rest of the squad. Like with Lamine, though, there is a possibility that Flick opts to rest him with an eye on the Newcastle United clash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the 1-1 draw to Newcastle United earlier this week, FC Barcelona will be aiming to return to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[418,76599,177277,4893,106171,96556,9870,4898,209940,39421,403,99],"class_list":["post-521141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barcelona","tag-elche","tag-eric-garcia","tag-fc-barcelona","tag-hansi-flick","tag-lamine-yamal","tag-newcastle-united","tag-real-madrid","tag-ronald-araujo","tag-sevilla","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}