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Lamine Yamal has been ruled out of Spain's World Cup qualifiers against Georgia and Bulgaria this month after suffering a recurrence of his groin injury, Barcelona said on Friday.

The 18-year-old winger is expected to be sidelined for up to three weeks after the problem resurfaced following Wednesday's 2-1 loss to Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League.

"The pain reappeared after the match with PSG," Barcelona said on Friday. "The estimated recovery time is two-to-three weeks."

Barcelona made the statement after Yamal had been called up to the national squad, with Spain promptly confirming the news and removing him from their list.

Against PSG, Yamal made his first start since August after missing four games while recovering from a groin injury, which drew the ire of Barc

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