when Raphinha compares Lamine Yamal and… Neymar

What a week for Lamine Yamal! Last Saturday, the Spanish nugget marched on Real Madrid with Barça, winning 4-0 on the Santiago Bernabeu pitch, scoring his team’s third goal. Two days later, he was in Paris to receive the Kopa Trophy at the Ballon d’Or ceremony for the best player under the age of 21. At just 17 years old, the Barcelona winger has had an extraordinary trajectory over the past year and his debut in the Spanish championship.

“Messi is out of the ordinary. He is inexplicable”

And inevitably, he is regularly compared to a certain Lionel Messi in Spain. However, his teammate Raphinha wants to temper this by explaining that he reminds him more of Neymar: “Messi is out of the ordinary. It is inexplicable. I see him more like Neymar with his dribbling and the speed with which he thinks about dribbling. When you think you can steal the ball from him, he does something you’ve never seen in your life“, explained Auriverde in the columns ofThe Country.

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