Barcelona have confirmed Lamine Yamal will miss the remainder of the season with a hamstring injury, but is expected to be fit for the World Cup this summer.
Yamal was substituted during their victory over Celta Vigo on Wednesday, with the teenager clutching his hamstring immediately after scoring a penalty in the 1-0 win.
The 18-year-old has played 45 matches across all competitions this term, the third most of any Barca player (Eric Garcia – 47, Gerard Martin – 46), scoring 24 goals and providing 17 assists in those games.
Yamal leads the way for assists in LaLiga this term, with 11, while only Kylian Mbappe (28) has directly contributed to more goals in the competition this season than the Barca winger (27).
Barca released a statement that read: "The tests carried out have confirmed that first-team player Lamine Yamal has a hamstring injury in his left leg (biceps femoris muscle).
"The player will follow a conservative treatment plan. Lamine Yamal will miss the remainder of the season, and he is expected to be available for the World Cup."
Barca have six matches remaining in the 2025-26 season, with all of those games coming in LaLiga.
The Blaugrana's win over Celta moved them nine points clear of second-place Real Madrid, who they face on May 10.
According to the Opta supercomputer, Barca have a 97.7% chance of retaining their LaLiga crown, compared to Madrid's 2.3% probability of lifting the trophy next month.
Spain's World Cup campaign starts on June 15 against Cape Verde, while they will also face Saudi Arabia and Uruguay in the group stage.
Luis de la Fuente's side are one of the favourites to win the competition, having won the Euros in 2024.
vasadeopru
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Speed recovery Yamal, but when Coach tried to manage your minutes you always showed frustration
munaskopp
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This is good news, as I was fearing that he misses the world cup. Barcelona already has a hand on la liga, and I think Roony is going to do well in Yamal’s absence, as there is not much remaining to be played for Barcelona this season, but the classico
cocist
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Speed recovery kid
He can support his team on radio
cocist
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That's not good news. I'm glad that Barcelona are almost certain of La liga before this happened and he'd be back for the WC. Speedy recovery to the little magician.
He can support his team on TV that’s better.
cocist
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He can watch it on TV. 👌
Hohaimpsty
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hi
Davichi
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That's not good news. I'm glad that Barcelona are almost certain of La liga before this happened and he'd be back for the WC. Speedy recovery to the little magician.
yepdkuyz
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Speed recovery kid
Haoemnort
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yamal ana wasa
Ficbcklsuy
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wishing him a speed recovery and it very tough for us now coz without him and raphinha mmm it hurt so let's just pray that in these six remained games we win four and draw the two but for real Madrid we'll win as raphinha will be available
Lidbeklruy
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this is sad news , without him and Raphinha , Barcelona is in a vad space with six games to play leading the race with 9 points we have to win four games in order to lift La liga this season and the players has to pull themselves together and fight till the last game
Desciklnot
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please out wc also so spain can win
bicblnopuy
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speedy recovery
oluwagoddy
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no proper rest of recovery time for these players before the world 🌍 cup ??? damn !!! 💀😭