Historic Lamine Yamal Hat-Trick & Champions League Showdowns Revealed
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What record did Lamine Yamal achieve in La Liga?
In terms of club shirts sold, Barcelona came out on top. Are they still buying your shirt, Gary? No, I think it's down to Lumi and Jamal. The second goal was unbelievable. He has no right to score from there. Oh, my word. It's 100 goal involvements now. Three years before Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi managed 100. Lots of rumours about finalising that loan with a fee of 30 million. Bargain. Since Pep Guardiola took over at City, do you know how many times they've faced each other? I would guess maybe, I don't know, 12? 13. Oh, good guess. Hello and welcome to the Rest is Football La Liga episode with Alex Alger and me, Gary Lineker.
How did Barcelona perform against Villarreal?
We're recording this on Monday and Real Madrid play on Monday night. So I think predominantly we'll be talking about Barcelona in this episode. But before we get off to that, I haven't seen you since last week. You went up to Newcastle, obviously. For that thriller. Well, I mean... 6-1 lead, 6-1 lead. Any interviews that you'd carry out after the game? No, I actually had the job of going out 75 minutes to speak to the Newcastle fans as they were leaving. My question to the Newcastle fans as they were leaving St. James' Park was, who do you want in the last 16, Chelsea or Barcelona? And weirdly, well, actually, maybe not weirdly. They all said Barcelona. You would, wouldn't you? But surely they're more likely to beat Chelsea.
What are the implications of Barcelona's Champions League draw?
Yeah, but I don't think that's the point. If you're in the Champions League, I mean, realistically, Newcastle are not going to win the Champions League. I remember it was exactly the same when Leicester were in there. We wanted one of the big boys. You want to play... I mean, I know they've already played Barcelona this season, but they want a trip to the camp now, don't they? They want to go to Barcelona. It's quite nice in March, generally. So I think... Yeah, and it's a glamour tie, whereas you play Chelsea at least twice a season anyway. There's nothing special about it. True. And they were all saying, we'll beat Barcelona. We're going all the way. We're going to win it. All the fans said their chances.
What should we expect from the upcoming Champions League matches?
Yeah, they were very confident. The Geordies were very confident. I like that. Alan's saying the same, I think. Yeah, but I don't think he means it. Deluded. Deluded. Well, we never know. We never know. We never know. Anyway, so we are going back for that game. We'll be at St. James' Park next Tuesday. For Amazon Prime, yeah. For Amazon Prime, for Newcastle, Barcelona, first leg.
How did Atletico Madrid fare in their last match?
So yeah, really looking forward to that. Really looking forward to it. And they've already played there, of course, in the Champions League this season. Good night for Marcus Rashford. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, good night for him. And actually that leads us nicely into conversation about Marcus, I think, because he's not getting many minutes at the moment, but that's because for obvious reasons, Laminia Mal is playing on the right and Rafinha is playing on the left and they are two of the best players. I would say definitely both in the top five in world football at the moment. So it's understandable, which I don't think is a bad thing necessarily for England looking ahead to the World Cup. At least we'll have one player that's relatively fresh.
Whenever he comes on, he does really well. Lots of rumours about finalising that loan to make it a permanent deal in the last few days and rumours that he's even agreed a contract with Barcelona with a fee of 30 million. Bargain. I think that'd be a great move for him, don't you? I mean, I know at the moment you go, well, is he going to be, is he in the first 11?
What is the current state of the title race in La Liga?
Well, maybe even if he's not, it's very much a squad game now. We got a lot of action, a lot of game time in the first half of the season. You had injuries, obviously not only to Laminia Mal, but also to Rafinha and at times Lewandowski. And he can play probably anywhere across the front three. His best position is clearly the left, which looks promising for him, really, I would say. Yeah. Yeah, and I think Barcelona have really liked his attitude. You know, the fact that he hasn't been starting week in, week out, but when he's come on the pitch, he's delivered and he's obviously, you know, his head's in the right place, isn't it?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What record did Lamine Yamal achieve in La Liga?
0:00–0:50
2
How did Barcelona perform against Villarreal?
0:50–1:39
3
What are the implications of Barcelona's Champions League draw?
1:39–2:15
4
What should we expect from the upcoming Champions League matches?
2:15–2:38
5
How did Atletico Madrid fare in their last match?
2:38–3:44
6
What is the current state of the title race in La Liga?
3:44–4:35
7
How is Marcus Rashford adapting to his role at Barcelona?
4:35–5:26
8
What are the predictions for the next Champions League fixtures?
5:26–24:07
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