From Fermín to Lamine Yamal, La Masia came to the rescue in Mallorca. Barcelona’s inexhaustible talent appears when it is most needed. When there are injuries or when the economic outlook is not rosy. From Fermín López (20 years old) to Lamine Yamal (16), the kids acted as a catalyst to scratch a point in a game in which the team’s seniors did not exactly have their best night. In times of trouble, Xavi had no qualms about putting his 2023 nursery on the field, as on his day they appeared with the Gavi pacifier two summers ago or Balde, which had already been released on time, a year ago. Breaking down the door based on accomplished facts.
If Lamine Yamal has had a meteoric and explosive emergence, Fermín has been more a matter of hard work and patience. In Palma he continued to reap the reward from him. Before visiting the Mallorca field he had barely played four minutes in the First Division, against Villarreal. But the injuries to Pedri and Frenkie de Jong have made him the first substitute for the midfield and he only needed a quarter hour on the field to stand in the area, intuitively follow the play and transform the 2-2 taking advantage of Lewandowski’s maneuver of letting the ball pass after a good combination between Yamal and Raphinha.
“Fermín is a great discovery. A player to take into account who can be very important,” praised the Andalusian Xavi Hernández on Monday. The technician values ??his work and his predisposition. During the national team break, while Lamine Yamal became the debutant and the youngest scorer with Spain, Fermín went down to Barcelona B to play in Primera RFEF. He was unlucky, as he was sent off against Nàstic, and could not later be included in the Barça-Betis squad because he was suspended. A Betis that was his club of origin in 2016 when Barcelona captured him in a tournament in La Canonja (Tarragona) for the children’s A team. Since then he has been working on it, including a loan at Linares Deportivo where he showed he had an arrival ( 12 goals) and where he deserved to return.
Now he is willing to continue taking advantage of his opportunity, as he already anticipated on the tour of the United States, including a goal against Real Madrid.
Like Lamine, who shook up the match with his overflow and vision of the game. She even forced a penalty that the VAR, rightly, annulled. It was his fourth game followed by him as a substitute, but he made merit to return to the starting lineup. “Lamine is very mature for his age, but he is so young that we have to take care of him. They are fresh people that we bring out because we try to find solutions for the team. Fermín has also entered very well,” said Xavi, who regretted his team’s failures: “The draw is insufficient; We have generated more than enough to win, but we have made mistakes, one when the ball was released and another, childish, after a goal kick. They have been improper and blatant errors. We have had to row more than necessary.” At least the ship did not sink thanks to the Masia of every day.
