“I was clear that if I marked it would be in important matches.” He said it Lamine YamalAfter scoring two goals in two consecutive games: before Benfica and in the field of Atlético de Madrid. It could sound like a daring soccer player, to spontaneity as a teenager, to response to criticism. Or at all at once.
It is not a purely verbal threat, a trick, or a provocation. The fact is that Lamine Yamal, a 17 -year -old footballer, intimidates to the so -called best team of the 21st century. Could be taken as A notice because, in effect, goals in important games. It will be the final of the Copa del Rey, just like all the classics. And Real Madrid has proven it.
Lamine Yamal, along with Iñigo, Olmo and Gavi, celebrates the conquest of the Spanish Super Cup with the win to Madrid. / STR / EFE
Of the 14 goals that Rocafonda has scored so far this season, two have signed them in the two preceding clashes. In the two goals from Barça to Madrid, They also impress before the third meeting. Lamine Yamal scored in the 0-4 of Bernabéu and in the 2-5 of the Super Cup final. They were not two goals from Churro: in the first A RIGHT TO THE LUNIN SQUARE and in the second Un softly pase shallow a la red that defended courteous.
Lamine Yamal looks at the Bernabéu stand while listening to racist insults in the League classic. / AFP7 via Europa Press
Crack numbers
Important goals, such as the two consecutive ones that motivated the striking initial reflection. Lamine Yamal refatted the criticisms of her relative productive shortage – Lewandowski has 40 goals and Raphinha sum 30–, with a goal to Benfica in the eighths of the Champions And another, immediately, to Atlético in the comeback league (2-4) In March. You would not have to ignore the striker the 22 assists he has given.
Lamine Yamal and Raphinha congratulate Lewandowski for their second goal to Borussia Dortmund in Montjuïc. / Jordi Cotrina / EPC_EXTERNAS
At this point, nobody sees Lamine Yamal as a striker who should be playing on Youth League. Nor does he see him as the simple companion of Lewandowski and Raphinha in the headlit of Barça, which will complete Ferran Torres in the absence of the Polish. He looks at him as a world size star in which he is his second campaign in the elite. For their actions in the field and their numbers in statistics: 21 goals and 31 assists in 98 games, In his two full seasons, plays with 16 and 17 years. The debut was seven minutes in front of Betis, with April 15, 2023.
Lamine Yamal surpasses Kimmich, in the presence of Kane, during the Champions League match against Bayern Munich. / JORDI COTRINA / EPC
Errors and genius
Only in errors, in decision -making, some precipitated, youth are guessed, perhaps inexperience. And it is also in other decisions when they are warned genius genes They are leading you in major comparisons. With the greatest and from whom the recent memory has not been blurred. Another left -handed that emerged from the quarry and started from the extreme right. The largest of Madrid of the last five years.
The end can look at Mbappé and maybe Kylian who lowers his head: when he saw him, he will also remember the goal of the Eurocup to France.
Lamine Yamal and Kylian Mbappé, in the Spain-France of the Eurocup semifinal. / FILIP SINGER / EFE
You will have this Saturday Lamine Yamal 17 years, 10 months and 23 days and A lot of precocity rigs. Messi, at that age, was a substitute at Barça de Frank Rijkaard. Moreover, it was not convened to Levante-Barça (May 14, 2005), when the alirón of that league was sung.
Lamine Yamal can look perfectly In the eye to Kylian Mbappé, The last galactic. And, perhaps, it is the Madrid player who diverts his eyes. Only with seeing you will remember, immediately, The goal to the squad that stuck in the Eurocup and with which Spain eliminated France. Another important goal.
