Lamine Yamal forced off after scoring winner for Barcelona to spark World Cup injury fears

Yamal scored his penalty but then went down to ground with a suspected hamstring injury (AP)

Barcelona have six games left of their league season and face Getafe and Osasuna in their next two matches, before a potentially pivotal El Clasico game against Real Madrid on 10 May at the Camp Nou.

After the match, his Barcelona teammate Pedri said that he hopes Yamal “misses the smallest possible amount of time”.

“He'll undergo the tests tomorrow and we'll see the nature of the issue. I wish him all the best, and that he stays calm because he's still young,” said the Spaniard.

And while those next three games for his club are certainly under threat, early reports in Spanish media suggest that Yamal may even be a doubt to play at the upcoming World Cup if his injury is as serious as expected.

The 18-year-old is now a doubt ahead of Spain's World Cup campaign beginning on 15 June (AP)

The tournament is now just 50 days away, and according to Catalan outlet Mundo Deportivo, “initial examinations” on the injury suggest he has “suffered a tear in his left hamstring”, with suggestions he might be “sidelined for at least five weeks”.

While a five-week timeline would be enough for Yamal to be fit in time for Spain’s World Cup opener against Cape Verde on 15 June, he will hope it is not a more serious tear. He is the latest young talent to suffer a hamstring issue, with Chelsea’s Estevao also a doubt to make the World Cup after picking up his own hamstring injury last weekend.