An epic goal, gestures of crazy virtuosity, confusing dribbles and a constant threat to each touched ball: Lamine Yamal delivered a real recital during the first round of FC Barcelona against Inter Milan, Wednesday evening (3-3). Author of the Blaugrana's first goal, the Spanish prodigy completely revived his team in a incredible match.
If Marcus Thuram preferred to place his opponent behind Ousmane Dembélé and Kylian Mbappé In the hierarchy of world football, several of his teammates did not hesitate to advance: Lamine Yamal is the best player in the world.
An observation shared by the world press. On the other side of the Pyrenees, the daily pro-Barça El Mundo Deportivo drinks whey. “Lamine Yamal continues to impress”title the newspaper. “He plays with amazing maturity for such a young player. We are not only talking about the technical qualities he spreads up match after match, but also about his personality, in the way he maintained Barça in life against Inter. It was he who made Catalan supporters vibrate. The kind of performance that we will have remembered and that we had not seen in Barcelona for a very long time.”
Henry Place Yamal above the biggest
In the other European countries, Italy is obviously under the spell of the one who was his executioner, the Gazzetta dello Sport greeting the masterclass of the European champion. On the set of the Champions Club canal, journalist Bertrand Latour praised “a different player”, but the most eloquent words came from across the Channel, where Thierry Henry placed the virtuoso above the older ones. “What always surprises me in football is that you always say that it is impossible that someone is better, or can be better, or seems better than Ronaldo and Messi, and in my time Pelé and Maradona, Zidane, R9 or other. And then Lamine Yamal arrives. It's just crazy what he's doing. It's simply abnormal “enthusiastic the French world champion, consultant for CBS.
