Barcelona, final night time, gained a beneficial lead over SL Benfica of their Champions League Spherical of 16 encounter, with Raphinha scoring the winner.
In a recreation the place Barcelona had been down to 10 males within the twenty second minute, the and play a comparatively defensive recreation because of Pau Cubarsi’s early pink card.
For sure, this compelled coach Hansi Flick to make some substitutions, together with taking off Lamine Yamal early within the second half – one thing that didn’t go too nicely with the younger attacker.
Certainly, Yamal regarded visibly pissed off after being subbed off because the teenager believed that he might have made a distinction on the pitch. However Flick determined to interchange him with Ferran Torres.
Flick approached Yamal after his substitution
As reported by , Flick was observant of Yamal’s response after being substituted. However as a substitute of ignoring the attacker’s frustration, the German coach approached the participant, providing him a handshake.
Though Yamal was visibly upset, he reciprocated and even listened to the justification given by Flick, although he didn’t appear all too eager on listening to the argument.
Flick defined that the rationale for his substitution was Benfica’s game-plan, which gave the impression to be catering right down to their left-hand channel, with Alvaro Carreras, particularly, trying fairly harmful.
Subsequently, the Barcelona coach felt Jules Kounde wanted a bit extra defensive assist for right-back Jules Kounde.
In any case, Flick’s justification and phrases of encouragement to Yamal made certain that there wasn’t any form of friction going down between the 2.