Lamine Yamal will be out for two to three weeks due to an ankle injury, and a lumbar problem will keep Lewandowski inactive for about ten days.
BARCELONA — Lamine Yamal and Robert Lewandowski will not take part in the double day of national teams in the Nations Leaguesuffering from two injuries that Barcelona reported this Monday through separate medical statements to report on their condition.
The young youth squad, who was already ruled out by Flick for the match against Real Sociedad and had to join the Spanish team’s training camp to face Denmark (on Friday) and Switzerland (the following Monday), is suffering according to the statement sent for Barça “a grade 1 injury to the syndesmosis of the right ankle” that will keep him out for two to three weeks, making it unlikely that he will be able to play in Vigo against Celta on November 23 and his presence is not certain either. three days later in the Champions League match against Brest.
Robert Lewandowski and Lamine Yamal, in a Barcelona training session. EFE
His reappearance, in this case, would occur in the last match of the month of November, on the 30th in Montjuïc against Las Palmas.
In the case of the Polish striker, Barcelona reported a “lumbar injury” that would affect him for about ten days, meaning that, in theory, he should arrive at the Balaídos game without further problems, after, of course, missing the two matches in Poland, in Portugal on Friday and against Scotland the following Monday.
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This is the first setback that affects Hansi Flick’s forwards at Barça, who began the season with a long list of injuries and to whom Marc Bernal was added at the beginning of the season, with a tear in the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee and later Ter Stegen, who subsequently suffered a total rupture of the patellar tendon in his right knee.
Lewandowski has stood out for an extraordinary start to the season, scoring 19 goals between the League and the Champions League in what is his best start to the season since he arrived at Barça, where it has coincided with the emergence of Lamine Yamal, who this season, already wearing a number of the first team, he has six goals and eight assists.