Lamine Yamal is arguably one of the brightest diamonds of the football industry and one of the biggest sensations in the start of the current season. Product of ‘La Masia’, the 16 years old teenager has become a key element for both club and nation, being already the youngest player ever to score with Barcelona and Spanish senior national team in official matches.
The young Spaniard is a technically gifted player who despite being in his breakthrough season shows great personality and composure on his performances. Yamal performs mainly as winger, preferably inverted on the right side, but feeling also comfortable when performing in his natural left side. His characteristics and football IQ also allow him to adopt inner positions and perform as playmaker, being his profile a mix between plays creator and finisher.
Lamine Yamal is the kind of player considered a nightmare to defend for any defender, as his football attributes for his young age are amazingly developed. After Dembele´s and Ansu fati´s departures, and with Rapinha not living his best moment, there was a clear absence of the classical unbalancing winger profile in “Can Barça”, where Lamine emerged to accept the challenge with outrageous output. Yamal is an eccentric and fantasy player, tireless of trying to beat his man during his matches. He loves to receive next to the sideline, isolating rivals to try to beat them in one-on-one situations, which is his main virtue. In those actions he is amazingly explosive with a low center of gravity, allowing him to have a huge ability to electrically change directions, adding unpredictability to his actions. His innate ball dominance is of high quality, making it difficult to get the ball off him. He possesses close ball control, amazing footwork and creativity on the ball, having ability to display different scenarios, cutting inside and breaking lines trying to associate/find shooting positions or playing wide and direct to gain the bottom line and filter killer passes or crosses. The Spanish youngster is also an interesting player in high tempo open matches, playing with space and on transitions. He is a vertical player who loves to carry the ball forward arriving to advanced zones provided with high pace and ball conduction.
Despite being a clear weapon when facing rivals, Yamal is much more than just a dribbler. Being a player who loves to verticalize in his game, he is also good at combining. He is able to help in the build up phase, being much more determinant when associating with teammates in the final third. He possesses good passing accuracy, being able to combine at high speed, with quick decision making when feeling under pressure in tight spaces. His vision is also remarkable, detecting arrivals of teammates from the second line, being able to filter the last pass or provide pin-point crosses from the left flank, commonly to the second post. He possesses elevated numbers in terms of finishing too, being a quite complete player profile in terms of attacking. His positioning when nearing the opposite area is outrageous, adopting interesting and dangerous spots for shooting. He possesses good mid/long range powerful shooting, but his most remarkable aspect in finishing is his quality curled shooting, placing the ball out of the goalkeepers range of action.
Despite having great conditions to be one of the big players of the future, there are several areas of improvement in his game. As his own coach stated, being a winger is much more than beating his man several times on the ball, showing Lamine´s lack of contribution in tracking back and following his man in the defensive phase. His physical conditioning is also an aspect to work on. He is so fast and explosive, but when facing rocky defenders with good use of his body, Lamine loses advantage of his attributes, due to not being able to physically dispute against them. Yamal also tends to be, by times, excessively individualist in his actions, which affects his decision making. In that aspect, he mainly sins of excessive dribbling after beating his man and his shooting selection, when having a better alternative of passing. The use of his weaker foot is another aspect to improve, which could help him to be much more unpredictable, leaving behind his closed left-footed condition.
Lamine Yamal is in his best form at the moment, living every teenager´s dream debut season. He is having an incredible impact on the game for his club, having room for improvement and an enormous potential to become a top player in the future.
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The young Spaniard is a technically gifted player who despite being in his breakthrough season shows great personality and composure on his performances. Yamal performs mainly as winger, preferably inverted on the right side, but feeling also comfortable when performing in his natural left side. His characteristics and football IQ also allow him to adopt inner positions and perform as playmaker, being his profile a mix between plays creator and finisher.
Lamine Yamal is the kind of player considered a nightmare to defend for any defender, as his football attributes for his young age are amazingly developed. After Dembele´s and Ansu fati´s departures, and with Rapinha not living his best moment, there was a clear absence of the classical unbalancing winger profile in “Can Barça”, where Lamine emerged to accept the challenge with outrageous output. Yamal is an eccentric and fantasy player, tireless of trying to beat his man during his matches. He loves to receive next to the sideline, isolating rivals to try to beat them in one-on-one situations, which is his main virtue. In those actions he is amazingly explosive with a low center of gravity, allowing him to have a huge ability to electrically change directions, adding unpredictability to his actions. His innate ball dominance is of high quality, making it difficult to get the ball off him. He possesses close ball control, amazing footwork and creativity on the ball, having ability to display different scenarios, cutting inside and breaking lines trying to associate/find shooting positions or playing wide and direct to gain the bottom line and filter killer passes or crosses. The Spanish youngster is also an interesting player in high tempo open matches, playing with space and on transitions. He is a vertical player who loves to carry the ball forward arriving to advanced zones provided with high pace and ball conduction.
Despite being a clear weapon when facing rivals, Yamal is much more than just a dribbler. Being a player who loves to verticalize in his game, he is also good at combining. He is able to help in the build up phase, being much more determinant when associating with teammates in the final third. He possesses good passing accuracy, being able to combine at high speed, with quick decision making when feeling under pressure in tight spaces. His vision is also remarkable, detecting arrivals of teammates from the second line, being able to filter the last pass or provide pin-point crosses from the left flank, commonly to the second post. He possesses elevated numbers in terms of finishing too, being a quite complete player profile in terms of attacking. His positioning when nearing the opposite area is outrageous, adopting interesting and dangerous spots for shooting. He possesses good mid/long range powerful shooting, but his most remarkable aspect in finishing is his quality curled shooting, placing the ball out of the goalkeepers range of action.
Despite having great conditions to be one of the big players of the future, there are several areas of improvement in his game. As his own coach stated, being a winger is much more than beating his man several times on the ball, showing Lamine´s lack of contribution in tracking back and following his man in the defensive phase. His physical conditioning is also an aspect to work on. He is so fast and explosive, but when facing rocky defenders with good use of his body, Lamine loses advantage of his attributes, due to not being able to physically dispute against them. Yamal also tends to be, by times, excessively individualist in his actions, which affects his decision making. In that aspect, he mainly sins of excessive dribbling after beating his man and his shooting selection, when having a better alternative of passing. The use of his weaker foot is another aspect to improve, which could help him to be much more unpredictable, leaving behind his closed left-footed condition.
Lamine Yamal is in his best form at the moment, living every teenager´s dream debut season. He is having an incredible impact on the game for his club, having room for improvement and an enormous potential to become a top player in the future.
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