10 - Lamine Yamal
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iniestaGOAT
Senior Member
What is that now?
18 G/a this season already?
Lil bro cooking
18 G/a this season already?
Lil bro cooking
Raketa10
Senior Member
We are all a bit harsh as he is only 18y old and we probably expect too much from him. However, I agree there is a room for improvement. Another important thing for his development is that club and people around him need to stop kissing his ass. He is not Messi and he sholud not act like Messi on the field.
Lmao Robinho? This is just pure hate.
putogusiluz8
The Pale One
He had some great runs where he showcased not just dribbling ability but even better pace with the ball and strength to knock down defenders.
I like what I saw from him today. I think he is continuing to evolve. It's been said a million times but it's worth reminding people that he is just 18. He needs at least 3-4 more years before he brings every facet of the game to a top class level. Even then his proclivity is to dribble, drisrupt and create - not run behind the defense and score goals.
But his talent is mesmerizing.
0:35 insane change of direction. 1:12 Look at the darting pace, almost balde-like. 2:10 & 2:37 Look at how he rides challenges and invites physicality; this is something he avoided before.
I like what I saw from him today. I think he is continuing to evolve. It's been said a million times but it's worth reminding people that he is just 18. He needs at least 3-4 more years before he brings every facet of the game to a top class level. Even then his proclivity is to dribble, drisrupt and create - not run behind the defense and score goals.
But his talent is mesmerizing.
reDIOS10
Member
Lamine is the last player I’m worried about on the team. His talent speaks for itself. What’s actually worrying that we’re not surrounding him by players close to his level to take advantage of how good he is. Messi was combining with xavi, iniesta, and dani alves. Only other player we have close to that level rn is pedri. It’s so sad to see how much the standard has dropped
Good thing is Yamal is still very young. There are lot of time ahead.
Horatio
You're welcome
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serghei
Senior Member
About right so far with how he plays. Few runs, expects ball to feet, minimal off the ball work, defends when he feels like if he feels like. So, like a less effective Neymar style player, equally skinny and waiting for the skightest contact to go down milking fouls. So... Spanish Robinho. He is very young and he can mature by fixing some bad habits.
serghei
Senior Member
I don't see any development at all compared to last season. He's shooting is far worse as he skies a lot of his shots, he does everything worse.
It is not about expecting too much. Quite the contrary, I don't expect him to dribble 3 players constantly, but I do expect him to make more runs in space and to help in defense. This ball hog act needs to stop.
We have two losses vs Chelsea and PSG in CL and his direct opponent was probably man of the match in both, both Mendes and Cucurella. We actually looked faster when he didn't play vs Newcastle, probably our best game this season vs a strong opponent.
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te amo barca
Blaugrana al vent
he is riding challenges, hardly going down to milk fouls. Buy glasses and don't spout BS
serghei
Senior Member
If you guys are happy with him this season, fine by me. I am not. Not by a long shot. We should play through him far less than we are doing and demand from him to work harder off the ball. Ask for more passes behind the defensive lines, mix it up a little. He almost never does that. We're playing through Yamal as if he's some unplayable menace 1 vs 1. He is not. He loses a good amount of balls or takes a high amount of solo actions that don't produce much even vs subpar sides.
You're all giddy and happy he produces stuff, but with the huge amount of attacks that go through him every game it's normal he makes some of them work. Not some special feat for a talented player, which nobody denies he is (Robinho had bags of talent also). We are starting to defer to him like we did with Messi. Except Messi was three times the player.
Even vs Alaves. Olmo has Rashford and Yamal as options, with Rashford in a much better position and he defaults to Yamal. Other players do the same. Pass to Lamine whenever open, forget about the rest. We are turning into a positional side and losing the edge in fast transitions that we had last season.
You're all giddy and happy he produces stuff, but with the huge amount of attacks that go through him every game it's normal he makes some of them work. Not some special feat for a talented player, which nobody denies he is (Robinho had bags of talent also). We are starting to defer to him like we did with Messi. Except Messi was three times the player.
Even vs Alaves. Olmo has Rashford and Yamal as options, with Rashford in a much better position and he defaults to Yamal. Other players do the same. Pass to Lamine whenever open, forget about the rest. We are turning into a positional side and losing the edge in fast transitions that we had last season.
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