Luis de la Fuente insists he did not overuse Lamine Yamal, which led to the player’s injury in the game against the Dutch team.

Spain coach Luis de la Fuente has insisted he is not overusing Lamine Yamal after the 17-year-old forward suffered an injury in the 1-0 win over Denmark and was forced to withdraw from Spain’s squad for Tuesday’s Nations League clash with Serbia.

Since making his Spain debut on September 8, 2023, at the age of 16 years and 57 days, Yamal has made a combined 72 appearances for his country and club. When asked if it was normal, 

De la Fuente replied: ‘With us, he played 17 games until the last one. If we want fairer statistics, in two years he will play 26 games, one a month for the national team. I don’t know how many games he will play. For his club, as we understand, we have one important game a month and the best thing is that if Lamine is gone, then it will be understood. ‘

‘Who will let me start over and it’s normal, we always take care of the players. The problem is that every coach wants very good players to play, we don’t search for anything.’

Asked if he would change his system without key forwards Yamal and Nico Williams. The Bulls boss said: ‘We have a very clear idea and we always try to adapt it. But it’s true that this change in system has led to other statistics. ‘

‘If you don’t have a player with the speed of Nico or Lamine. But you have another player with another characteristic, you have another development, no worse. We have many more stats and we need strength there.’

‘We have players who can do amazingly UFABET. Tomorrow is a very important and difficult game. We can finish in a position that makes us very happy in that situation.’