This Lamine Yamal is very far from the footballer who dazzled last season. That argument is repeated like a mantra among the detractors of the Barça winger. That he has them.
The pubalgia problems that caused him miss up to five games this season with Barcelona, back in September, and their controversial calls and non-calls with the national team They placed him in the shooting. The first doubts arose about his figure. He no longer seemed like the same electric player who overflowed with insulting ease the previous season. That teenager who in a Champions League semi-final took the team on his back and dazzled all of Europe with his performances. That precocity ventured more than one to point out that irruption as something temporary. Fleeting and condemned to decline.
Flick: “Lamine is still not 100%, I ask that you take care of him”
They are tiptoe through the Bernabéudragging discomfort from that complicated injury fueled the story. However, after almost six months of competition, that ominous prediction has fallen under its own weight as the days have passed. You only have to take a look at Lamine’s numbers to realize that, at 18 years old, he is still decisive in the game of Hansi Flick’s team.
with his great goal against OviedoLamine reached the eleven goals so far this season. Two more than he scored last season in those first 26 parties. Because right at this point in the season, Lamine had played the same games and had only scored nine times. He is one goal away from equaling his best record in the League -nine targets on 24-25- and The forecast is that he will exceed the 18 points he scored last seasonthe most prolific of his short but intense career as a Barça player. At least, Lamine still has 17 League games ahead of him, one in the Copa del Rey and three in the Champions League.
Lamine Yamal’s goal (3-0) in Barcelona 3-0 OviedoSportian
Top assist in the League
His winger position, in any case, exonerates him from direct responsibility in that scoring production. It is in the influence of the game, or in the assists, where he must be held accountable. And there Lamine is the king. There are now 12 passes he has given that have resulted in goals for his teamnine of them in the League, which makes him the top assistant of the championship. Your companion Rashfordwith eight, or Luis Milla y Arda Gulerwith seven, follow closely. Those 12 assists among all competitions leave him right in the middle of the 25 who signed last yearhis year of impact on this Barça. That is to say, if the youth player maintains this productivity he will be very close to surpassing this mark at the end of the season as well. While his performance is questioned, Lamine delivers by the numbers. The influence on the game is not even worth a debate.
