Pau Cubarsí Brings Lamine Yamal Down a Notch and Reveals Who the Favorite Is in the Champions League

Lamine Yamal confessed that he saw Barça as the favorite to win the Champions League. We don't know if it was in a burst of sincerity or a lack of humility. Pau Cubarsí, asked by Juanma Castaño on El Partidazo de Cope, gave his opinion: "We are in the quarterfinals with the eight best teams, and we are all favorites," stated the FC Barcelona center-back.

Cubarsí States That the Eight Teams in the Champions League Quarterfinals Are Favorites

"Each match is a world, the best are here right now, and anyone can beat you, and you can beat them," concluded Cubarsí.

Much more cautious is the Catalan international, who knows that Real Madrid is the team that has won the most Champions Leagues. The team that has lifted six "orejonas" in the last eleven seasons, and the one that knows best the path to achieve it.

Therefore, declaring another team as the favorite is very risky, although obviously, the "whites" can't win it every year. If you intend to boast in a competition as tough as the European Cup, it's normal for you to get knocked down.

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A more than altered point of view from Yamal played a bad hand when making these statements. It's better to fly under the radar and lift the cup at the end than to speak too soon and be left with nothing. When any team you face in the Champions League sends you home.

Barça is not in a position to boast in the top European competition, after many years of embarrassments, even being eliminated in the group stage. The heavy defeats accumulated, the hardest being the one inflicted by Flick with Bayern 5 years ago in Lisbon. A 2-8 that will be remembered forever.

Nine years without bringing the "orejona" to the "culé" trophy room should serve to learn from mistakes and carry humility as a banner. Lamine has made a mistake with his words, and Cubarsí has known how to rise to the occasion.