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Lamine Yamal: Hansi Flick offers latest update after Barcelona injury scare

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Lamine Yamal: Hansi Flick offers latest update after Barcelona injury scare
Teenage sensation was replaced by Ansu Fati during the latter stages of Champions League demolition against Borussia Dortmund

Hansi Flick has allayed any injury fears over Lamine Yamal after Barcelona’s stunning Champions League rout of Borussia Dortmund.

The teenage superstar enjoyed a central role in a dominant 4-0 victory in Wednesday night’s one-sided quarter-final first-leg tie at the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys, producing a devastating display alongside fellow in-form attackers Raphinha and Robert Lewandowski to help quadruple-chasing Barca put one foot firmly in the last four against either Bayern Munich or Inter Milan.

However, head coach Flick has now dismissed any fitness worries over Yamal ahead of a trip to face relegation-battling Leganes in LaLiga on Saturday night, a game that is swiftly followed by the second leg against Dortmund to come in Germany next week.

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