Lamine Yamal has still been talked about so much since the restart. But this season, it's much more about his excesses off the field than his exploits. His pubic injury certainly didn't help him, but the runner-up in the last Ballon d'Or is struggling to regain all his verve, at least with the ball.
Because in front of the microphones, the young Spanish prodigy is still as spicy as ever. This is evidenced by his comments made in the run-up to the Clasico. By declaring that the people of Madrid “steal and only complain” or that the Bernabeu did not scare him, Lamine Yamal increased the pressure. And the Merengue camp did not fail to remember its good memories after Real's victory (2-1).
At the final whistle, several Madrilenians, Dani Carvajal in the lead, did not hesitate to throw attacks at him. “You talk a lot” by miming the gesture of being silent with his hand. Author of the winning goal, Jude Bellingham shared it on social networks. “Talking is small. Hala Madrid”,
he wrote on his Instagram account with Elvis Presley's music “a little less conversation” playing in the background.
“He’s still young and needs to learn to deal with that…”
And even Marcus Sorg, Barça's assistant coach, did not spare his player. “The whistles may have disturbed him. He is still young and must learn to manage that… It’s true that it was complicated for him,” he confided in front of the microphones.
Lamine Yamal in fact completely got through his match. Well taken by Alvaro Carreras, the Blaugrana winger, very close to costing his team a penalty from the 2e minute for an uncontrolled tackle in the area on Vinicius, was indeed unremarkable, displaying an unusual waste in his dribbling and even his passing, and never managed to weigh in on the debates, this time seeming incapable of turning the match around on his own. The Barcelonan will be hungry for revenge on his return.
