Yamal: Barça don't fear Madrid like other teams

Lamine Yamal has told ESPN that Barcelona don't fearfulness Real Madrid similar different teams bash aft the Catalan nine won a 4th consecutive Clásico to determination to the brink of the LaLiga title.

Yamal, 17, scored Barça's 2nd extremity arsenic they recovered from conceding 2 aboriginal Kylian Mbappé strikes to win a singular crippled 4-3 astatine the Olympic Stadium, moving 7 points wide of Madrid with conscionable 3 matches to play.

Barça, who mislaid each 3 Clásico's last season, person present beaten Madrid 4 times since the commencement of the campaign, doubly successful LaLiga and successful some the Spanish Supercopa and Copa del Rey finals.

"It doesn't consciousness bully erstwhile Madrid bushed you," Yamal told ESPN aft the victory. "It's existent we didn't bushed them past year, we suffered, and this twelvemonth we gave everything to crook it around.

"We don't person that fearfulness of them that possibly different teams person against them. So we gave it our all. We consciousness similar we're amended than each different team, that's the mentality we spell retired with.

"I deliberation that's however you person to play against them. You person to amusement up similar you're the amended squad and bask yourself, that's it."

Barça manager Hansi Flick praised Yamal's mature performance successful helping the squad travel from 2 goals down for the seventh clip this season, saying "believe me, he's decidedly not a kid."

Yamal past kept a committedness to swap shirts with erstwhile Barça guardant Thierry Henry, who joined the Blaugrana in 2007, the aforesaid twelvemonth the teen was born.

Henry had asked Yamal for his garment during a caller interview, with the Barça winger saying helium would springiness him 1 if helium received 1 successful exchange.

Barça's brilliance successful onslaught with Yamal has often contrasted with problems successful defence, with the squad having to travel from down connected respective occasions this season.

In the past period alone, they person recovered themselves 2 goals down against Inter Milan twice, Celta Vigo and present Real Madrid.

Forward Dani Olmo said they cognize they person elements of their crippled to improve, but insists determination is an unerring condemnation that they tin ever find their mode backmost into matches.

"At the end, we request to power it a small spot more, the archetypal minutes, due to the fact that successful the past games we concede a batch of goals," Olmo told ESPN.

"But we cognize we are going to travel back. We cognize our powerfulness successful offence, but sometimes we request to power much this concern better.

"We cannot concede each crippled the archetypal extremity oregon 2 goals oregon whatever. We person to support moving connected that, but astatine the end, precise blessed for the win, it was precise important."

After opening up a seven-point pb astatine the apical of the table, Barça could triumph the league arsenic aboriginal arsenic Wednesday, if Madrid driblet points against Mallorca, oregon connected Thursday, erstwhile they question to metropolis rivals Espanyol.

Meanwhile, goalkeeper Wojciech Szczęsny has confirmed he's received an connection to widen his contract, which expires this summer, by an further 2 years.

Szczęsny -- who came retired of status past October erstwhile Marc-André ter Stegen, who is present acceptable again, got injured -- says helium volition instrumentality immoderate clip to deliberation astir the determination with his family.

"I won't fell that I person an connection to enactment astatine Barça for 2 much years," helium confirmed to Canal Plus. "I person asked for clip to deliberation astir it. I request to marque the determination with my household based connected what's champion for us.

"My spouse makes astir of the beingness decisions, I person nary shame successful admitting that. In football, I marque [career] decisions arsenic a professional, but this is an antithetic situation.

"We decided to travel present for a twelvemonth to fulfil a imagination and past get backmost to playing golf, truthful I don't cognize what volition hap now. I americium honorable astir that."