Lamine Yamal rests and joins the national team's training camp later: he misses the Prague match and will arrive for England

Lamine Yamal will not be in Prague on Thursday. Yes, however, he is expected for Sunday's game against England at the Metropolitano. It was precisely at Atlético's home, after Barça's victory (1-2), where number 10 noticed discomfort in his right knee. This Monday he underwent tests and, following the results, it has been decided that he will remain in Barcelona to continue his recovery process. This has been reported by the Federation, which has also announced that Mikel Oyarzabal is delaying his incorporation: the Real Sociedad forward is in the final phase of a flu process and will finish recovering in San Sebastián.

Neither of them will be against the Czech Republic. According to the Federation, both will join the Las Rozas concentration “in the coming days” to be available on Sunday the 15th, in the match that closes the group stage of the Nations League. To compensate for the casualties, Víctor Muñoz will join the Red camp tonight.

Oyarzabal had already missed Real's game on Sunday against Rayo Vallecano. Pellegrino Matarazzo explained after the match that the forward had suffered from a virus with angina and that he also had back discomfort. The case of Lamine Yamal is different. He is the Barça player who has accumulated the most minutes this season in Hansi Flick's team: 1,355. The Federation talks about knee discomfort; At Barcelona they also claim that the forward needed rest. The Federation's statement is concise and without reproaches. And he concludes with a sentence that a year ago would have been difficult to read: “The RFEF medical services are in permanent contact with the doctors of both clubs to follow the evolution of the two internationals day by day.”

A year ago, during the November national team break, Lamine's name was caught in the crossfire between Barcelona and the Federation. One day after the player arrived in Las Rozas, the Federation's medical services expressed in a harsh statement their "surprise and discomfort" upon learning that that same morning, without prior notice to the national team's medical staff, he had been subjected to an invasive radiofrequency procedure to treat his pubic discomfort. The club's report arrived at 10:40 p.m. and recommended between seven and ten days of rest. The RFEF ended up releasing him from the call for the matches against Georgia and Türkiye.

It was the most tense chapter of an autumn that had started tense. In September, Hansi Flick had complained that the national team “doesn't take care of the players” after the number 10 played with pubic pain, and Luis de la Fuente responded by reproaching him for his “lack of empathy.” In October, the coach called up Lamine only to call him off hours later. Neither of the two institutions wanted to lose, and the only one who lost was the player.

A year later, Barcelona and the Federation align themselves with Lamine. The player rests at least one game and saves the trip to Prague.