Golden ball: confirmed dramatic blow?

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By: Manu Tournoux

Author of a double, Thursday, facing the Blues of Ousmane Dembélé, Lamine Yamal counts on this new shine to reverse the trend in the Golden Ball race.

The evening turned into a nightmare for Ousmane Dembélé on Thursday against Spain. And not only due to the defeat conceded by the Blues, finally beaten 5-4 after being led 4-0 then 5-1 during the second period.

All fresh victorious of the Champions League also had to go out prematurely after feeling pain at the top of the thigh. Its package seems to be made in front of Germany on Sunday, and PSG will closely monitor the evolution of the injury ten days from the kick -off of the Club World Cup.

And the evening was all the more difficult for Ousmane Dembélé as he saw Lamine Yamal highlight himself, the young prodigy of Barça even offering himself a double. What inevitably do the business of the Catalan player in the Ballon d'Or race. The Spanish nugget did not fail to refer to it at the end of the meeting.

“If the trophy depends on today's match, that suits me”

“For me, apart from the fact that the most important was this match for the selection to go to the final, the Ballon d'Or is for the best of the year, he thus confided. But if the trophy depends on today's match, that suits me, I don't have any problems. I am very happy to go to the final and the match that awaits us on Sunday. »»

Lamine Yamal had also launched hostilities from the start of the week when Ooumane Dembélé had regained hand thanks to the recital of PSG in the Champions League final. “If people want the Golden Ball to be played on Thursday, then let's play it on Thursday,” had he launched.