{"id":15042,"date":"2025-03-19T08:23:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T02:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=577802"},"modified":"2025-03-19T08:23:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T02:53:21","slug":"not-afraid-of-any-team-we-are-favorites-to-win-the-champions-league-now-lamine-yamal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/not-afraid-of-any-team-we-are-favorites-to-win-the-champions-league-now-lamine-yamal\/","title":{"rendered":"Not afraid of any team, we are favorites to win the Champions League now: Lamine Yamal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona\u2019s young winger Lamine Yamal has opened up and spoke about the current form of the team and what he feels they can achieve this season. Yamal feels Barca are the favorites to win the UEFA Champions League trophy. The 17-year-old is in bright form along with the other team players such as Raphinha and Ferran Torres.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona\u2019s young sensation Lamine Yamal has expressed his belief that the club is now the frontrunner to win the UEFA Champions League this season. The 17-year-old winger, who has been in excellent form, feels the team has what it takes to go all the way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are favorites to win the Champions League now. Liverpool are out of the competition, they were initial favorites. Now, we are not afraid of any team,\u201d said Yamal, showing great confidence in Bar\u00e7a\u2019s ability.<\/p>\n<p>Under Flick\u2019s management, Barcelona have found stability and rhythm, with players like Raphinha and Ferran Torres also stepping up in crucial moments. With their attacking depth and solid defense, Yamal believes this could be Barcelona\u2019s year in Europe\u2019s biggest club competition.<\/p>\n<p>The Catalan giants will now look to maintain their momentum and prove Yamal\u2019s words right as they chase their first Champions League title since 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona\u2019s young winger Lamine Yamal has opened up and spoke about the current form of the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":35693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[661,3796,564,3919,3738,3356,3794,3916],"class_list":["post-15042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-barcelona","tag-football","tag-hansi-flick","tag-la-liga","tag-lamine-yamal","tag-raphinha","tag-ucl-quarter-finals","tag-uefa-champions-league-2024-25"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}