Winner of the 2026 World Cup with Spain, Lamine Yamal (19) eliminated the France team in the semi-final (2-0) before beating Lionel Messi’s Argentina (1-0). The young FC Barcelona star had also confirmed his pre-match comments when he assured that he often beat the Blues. And that’s what happened. After a penalty caused against Lucas Digne, Lamine Yamal and his teammates ate the tricolor rooster alive. Two months later, Lamine Yamal explained how Spain managed to dominate Didier Deschamps’ men so much.
“In matches against France, there are two options: either it’s an open match with counter-attacks, and in that case, France will surely end up killing you because they have great players in attack. Either you keep the ball and you dominate. The match started well for us with the 1-0, we started to have the ball and with so many high quality players, when you have the ball, it ends up creating a big gap. (…) It was a game action that we won. In this specific case, it’s me who gets the penalty. At 1-0, a lot can happen. And what happened was we played well from start to finish.”he told The Team.
