The Spectacular Numbers of Lamine Yamal

At 17 years and 291 days, Lamine Yamal's strike against Inter in the first leg of the Champions League semi-final made him the youngest player to score in a semi-final.

Lamine Yamal (17 years, 291 days) broke the record for the youngest player to score in the Champions League semi-finals. Photo: Reuters .

In the early morning of May 1, Yamal scored and had two shots hit the crossbar in Barca's 3-3 draw with Inter in the first leg of the Champions League semi-final at Lluis Companys Stadium.

In the 26th minute of the match at Lluis Companys, with Inter leading 2-0, Lamine Yamal received the ball on the right wing. The young Spanish star skillfully turned to eliminate Marcus Thuram and Henrikh Mkhitaryan before charging straight into the Inter penalty area.

Surrounded by five defenders on the away team, the Euro 2024 champion unleashed a skillful curling shot that hit the post and landed neatly in the net. According to Squawka , this moment made Yamal (17 years, 291 days) into Champions League history as the youngest player to score in the semi-finals.

This is also the 100th match of the young star born in 2007 in Barcelona shirt. Before the match, a direct comparison of statistics between Lionel Messi (41 goals and 14 assists) and Yamal (21 goals and 33 assists) in the first 99 matches showed an amazing coincidence in the number of times they contributed to goals.

More specifically, if compared at the same age of 17, Cristiano Ronaldo only played 19 matches, scored 5 goals, and assisted 4 times. Meanwhile, Messi at the age of 18 only played 8 matches and scored 1 goal.

After the match, Yamal was praised by coach Hansi Flick. The German strategist said: "He was the one who opened the match for Barcelona. We conceded two goals first. The score 1-2 is very important (to help the club recover)".

Inter centre-back Alessandro Bastoni also had a lot of praise when facing Yamal in the last match. He said: "He is an extraordinary player. Yamal is probably the best winger in the world right now. Yamal is only 17 years old, we have to give a lot of praise to such a player with his contributions to La Masia".

Similar to Bastoni, coach Simone Inzaghi also highly appreciated Yamal: "I have not seen a player like Yamal in the past 8-9 years. Inter had to send 3 players to follow Yamal."

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