Barca Edge Closer To Title Despite Yamal's Injury
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How did Barcelona extend their lead in the title race?
A lot of the star players in this World Cup, Rafinha now, Lamine Yamal, Kylian Mbappe, Mo Salah at the weekend. So many players getting injured at the moment. Carvajal is sitting on the bench and he's making like walking signs on his legs. The post intimated that it was towards Trent Alexander-Arnold.
He's club captain, you shouldn't be doing that.
It was a little bit meh.
Hello and welcome to the Rest is Football La Liga episode with Alex Algier and me, Gary Lineker. Quite a lot has happened since we last did an episode because we didn't do one last weekend because there was no La Liga at the weekend. But since then, there's been two rounds of fixtures and basically Barcelona have almost won themselves the league. A couple of victories, which we'll come to shortly. But first, Alex, I don't recognise where you are.
it sort of looks like a ski chalet doesn't it I'm in Paris for the Champions League so yeah having a lovely time here the sun is shining and looking forward to the game later on PSG Bayern Munich should be a cracker that yeah should be a great game and next week I'll be covering Atletico Madrid at the Emirates so so yeah looking forward to these two yeah so did you have you interviewed anyone yesterday I interviewed Kvica Kravoskelia
He's a nice guy actually. Do you know what happened? When Ballon d'Or about two years ago and I came out of the hotel the morning after and I was wondering this little guy, he just stood there, wasn't he? Just chilling with a hoodie on like this and he goes, hey, Gary, Gary, you know, like this. And Harry was with me and I went, yeah, hi, nice to see you. I just thought it was a fan. Harry went, it's Kravitz-Gallier, you idiot.
That was so funny.
He saved me.
Well done, Harry. Did he go back and say hi after that?
Well, no, he told me quickly enough. But he did have a hoodie on. I mean, footballers do look very different than you see them on the pitch. But what a player. Nice guy.
Yeah, really nice. Really nice. We don't get that long with them. Which language in English? It was English, it was English. He speaks a few languages. Yeah, yeah, he was good. So yeah, I spoke to him yesterday.
What impact does Lamine Yamal's injury have on Barcelona's season?
Luis Enrique was there, but we didn't interview him. So yeah, we'll see what happens in the game.
Yeah, let's talk about, well, Barcelona to start with. Two victories, fairly comfortable one away at Getafe and a goal for Marcus Rashford came off the bench again. Even with the injuries, he still didn't get a start. He's not really getting a look. Funnily enough, I actually interviewed Marcus about a week ago. How is he? He was in really good form. You could tell he was slightly frustrated at not starting all the time. But we had a nice chat. It was for a magazine, actually. And Marcus's team wanted someone that he knew to do the interview. So they asked me. So I thought, of course I will. I'll do that. And we had a nice little chat. He's always very engaging, very warm, intelligent. He's clearly loving life in Barcelona.
So I think he'd be very keen to stay. Have you heard anything?
Yeah, I was going to say the talk out there is that Barcelona aren't keen on paying the 30 million.
What are the implications of Real Madrid's recent performance?
Yeah.
that he's a good player and he's been good for them but yeah and he might not be be worth that and I just think we've spoken about it earlier in the season and I was saying it was a bargain a no-brainer surely but and especially if he wants to stay as well he doesn't want to go back to Manchester United I'm sure so it's a tricky one I feel like they should keep him
United have picked up, obviously. And I think it's probably more of an attractive prospect under Michael Carrick than it would have been otherwise, because he clearly didn't get on with hammering. But he came on again and, you know, he got breakaway goal, went from the halfway line, one on one with the goalkeeper and finished it pretty comfortably. So that will be suitors. I sense he wants to stay there. Whether they can make that happen or not, I don't know. You say you've heard, boss, I don't want to pay that much money.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
How did Barcelona extend their lead in the title race?
0:00–2:24
2
What impact does Lamine Yamal's injury have on Barcelona's season?
2:24–3:25
3
What are the implications of Real Madrid's recent performance?
3:25–9:24
4
How did Marcus Rashford contribute to Barcelona's recent victories?
9:24–17:58
5
What are the latest updates on player injuries in La Liga?
17:58–22:02
6
What does Barcelona's title win mean for their rivals?
22:02–23:01
Speakers
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