{"id":2338,"date":"2026-04-15T08:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2026-04-15T08:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:22:16","slug":"fc-barcelona-lamine-yamal-wants-to-be-inspired-by-neymar-and-lebron-to-achieve-the-impossible-against-the-madrilenians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2338","title":{"rendered":"FC Barcelona: Lamine Yamal wants to be inspired by Neymar and LeBron to achieve the impossible against the Madrilenians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div layout=\"desktop\">\n<p>At the dawn of the quarter-final second leg of the Champions League between Atl\u00e9tico Madrid and FC Barcelona, \u200b\u200bthis Tuesday, one stat alone sums up the scale of the task awaiting the Catalans, beaten in the first leg at Camp Nou (0-2): Atl\u00e9tico has never lost at home in the knockout phase of C1 since the arrival of Diego Simeone on its bench 15 years ago.<\/p>\n<h2>Memories of <span class=\"text-italic\">comebacks<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Faced with the almost impossible mission that awaits them, therefore, Bar\u00e7a players have no choice but to summon glorious past exploits to convince themselves that they can do it. By chance, the <span class=\"text-italic\">reassembled <\/span>against PSG in 2017, with a melting Neymar. Lamine Yamal, present at a press conference on Monday, did not hesitate to refer to it. The little prodigy was not yet 10 years old at the time, but he remembers it like it was yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw the match several times, I had seen it live. Neymar is one of the players who marked my childhood, he is my idol, said the Spanish winger. He&#8217;s a player who makes you want to pay for a ticket to see a match. \u00bb Yamal hopes to be one of them too, and in particular for this great challenge on the lawn of the Metropolitano.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"c-media\">\n<p><iframe title=\"Le \" juste=\"\" sp=\"\" cial=\"\" ligue=\"\" des=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ultimedia.com\/deliver\/generic\/iframe\/mdtk\/01357940\/zone\/1\/src\/38u3uuq\/showtitle\/1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>For that, he also found a source of inspiration from the NBA, he revealed. In 2016, the Cleveland Cavaliers won one of the most beautiful finals in history after being led 3-1 by the Warriors, defending champions. Hence the photo of LeBron James displayed on his Instagram account. \u201cIt&#8217;s one of the references that can inspire me for the match,\u201d said Yamal, who is looking forward to fighting on the field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the start of the season, people questioned my level a lot, in relation to pubalgia, etc. I couldn&#8217;t wait for these moments to arrive, because I believe that&#8217;s when the real players reveal themselves, the 18-year-old winger made no secret of himself. I have been lucky since I was little to have to take more responsibilities than others. So I&#8217;m used to it, and I don&#8217;t think about anything other than enjoying it with my teammates. I take it as a virtue and not a problem. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>All the news from the Champions League<\/p>\n<p>The Catalan phenomenon said he was \u201cvery motivated\u201d and promised that Bar\u00e7a would \u201cfight until the end\u201d. \u201cAm I going to make a difference tomorrow (Tuesday)? I hope so, maybe the \u201cCholo\u201d (Diego Simeone) will do me a favor and put me one on one with a player. \u00bb We don&#8217;t know why, we would rather bet on three or four.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the dawn of the quarter-final second leg of the Champions League between Atl\u00e9tico Madrid and FC Barcelona, \u200b\u200bthis Tuesday, one stat alone sums up the scale of the task awaiting the Catalans, beaten in the first leg at Camp Nou (0-2): Atl\u00e9tico has never lost at home in the knockout phase of C1 since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}