Lamine Yamal is already a phenomenon of football and especially a phenomenon of precocity, this is the case to say. Faced with the French team last year, in the semi-finals of Euro 2024, the left-hander of Barça marked a magnificent rolled strike when he was only 16 years old. He was going to celebrate his 17th birthday four days later. Exceptional! From the coronation of Spain in Berlin, Lamine Yamal is always more breathtaking with Barça.
The new blaugranas prodigy was evil in Liga as in the Champions League, regularly making the difference in the championship (8 goals, 15 assists) and also brilliant in the European Cup (5 goals, 4 assists), even if the statistics do not really reflect its completely crazy performances, in particular these two matches in the semi-finals against Inter.
Thursday evening, Lamine Yamal (these are her two first names, Nasraoui Ebana being his family name) struck hard by finding the skylight of the Espanyol goalkeeper to allow Barça to prevail (0-2) and to ensure the title of champion of Spain. It is his second national crown since he played a meeting in 2022-2023 under the orders of Xavi, then elderly 15 years and 9 months.
Lamine Yamal with two goals from a Lensois
Lamine Yamal is now at 13 Liga achievements and thus becomes the first player to register 13 goals before the age of 18 in the five major championships for 70 years! As indicated by the X account Football stats, In 1955, the RC Lens striker Maryan Wisnietski had compiled 15 goals before celebrating his 18th birthday. Wisnietski was a right winger launched very early to the RC Lens, his training club, with whom he scored 107 goals in 10 years. He is also the 4th younger player in the Blues, at 18 years and 2 months, behind Warren Zaïre-Emery, Eduardo Camavonga and René Gérard.
Lamine Yamal still has two Liga matches, against Villarreal and Athletic Bilbao, to catch up with this former French international. He will finally be major at the start of the next season.
By way of comparison, when he celebrated his 18th birthday in December 2016, Kylian Mbappé had just scored his fourth goal in Ligue 1 with AS Monaco (during a 5-0 against Bastia). Lionel Messi, he had become the youngest scorer in the history of FC Barcelona by opening his counter in La Liga against Albacete, on May 1, 2005, a few weeks before his majority. Lamine Yamal has therefore largely surpassed it.
