{"id":779182,"date":"2026-07-23T04:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/779182\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T04:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:08:10","slug":"robert-lewandowski-gives-his-verdict-on-lamine-yamals-performances-at-world-cup-2026-with-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/779182\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Lewandowski gives his verdict on Lamine Yamal\u2019s performances at World Cup 2026 with Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Robert Lewandowski has been asked about Lamine Yamal\u2019s performances at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcablaugranes.com\/world-cup-2026\/127065\/spain-argentina-world-cup-2026-final-score-recap-reaction-lionel-messi-lamine-yamal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup 2026<\/a> and feels the Barcelona teenager wasn\u2019t at his best at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Yamal returned from an injury lay-off in time for the start of World Cup 2026 but Lewandowski feels his lack of game time showed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cHonestly, no, we didn\u2019t [see his best this tournament]. The best performance, the best Lamine for me, of course, wasn\u2019t the last season, but two seasons ago, that was for me now the best version of Lamine Yamal,\u201d Lewandowski told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201dHe\u2019s still young, he came to the World Cup after injury and he didn\u2019t play for like eight weeks so it\u2019s tough if you don\u2019t play eight weeks and you have to start playing in the world cup, then you don\u2019t have time for the training just from game to game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cBut he showed really good quality. The Spain players and the team helped Lamine and Lamine also helped the whole team. I think that this cooperation was perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Spain did go on to win the game and Lewandowski was happy to see so many of his former team-mates taste glory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI know a lot of players from Spain and I spent so much time in Barcelona with them, so I supported them a lot,\u201d he added..<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201dOf course, I know from Argentina personally only Leo, but I know that he won the last World Cup. That\u2019s why I support the Spanish national team because if you play with them, you spend a lot of time together then it\u2019s easier to support this team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI was happy because I know they were ready to win the World Cup. They are very young and the future is in front of them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Lewandowski has been asked about Lamine Yamal\u2019s performances at World Cup 2026 and feels the Barcelona teenager&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1481,403,99,153412],"class_list":["post-779182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barcelona-team-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779182","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=779182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}