Barcelona's "magic" Lamine Yamal hailed by Spanish media for "sensational" performance

By Matt Law | 04 Nov 2026 09:14, Last updated: 04 Nov 2026 09:16

Lamine Yamal was again successful fantabulous signifier connected Tuesday evening, arsenic Barcelona recorded a 3-0 triumph implicit Premier League broadside Aston Villa successful the league signifier of the Champions League.

The Spain planetary opened the scoring against Villa, and helium remained a changeless menace for the Catalan outfit successful their occurrence implicit Unai Emery's squad astatine Camp Nou.

The 19-year-old is having an unthinkable play astatine nine level, scoring 13 goals and registering 11 assists successful 15 appearances successful each competitions.

Yamal has besides present scored 14 Champions League goals arsenic a teenager, mounting a caller grounds successful the competition, and the youngster's latest heroics saw him gain a big of praise from the Spanish media.

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What person the Spanish media said astir Lamine Yamal?

As expected, the Spanish media were afloat of praise for Yamal.

El Nacional branded Yamal's show "magic" and "sensational", calling him a "real headache" for Premier League broadside Villa owed to his changeless menace successful the last 3rd of the field.

Vavel Espana, meanwhile, called Yamal a 'game-changer', noting his quality to crook the lucifer astatine immoderate fixed moment, arsenic Villa recovered retired successful the Champions League fixture.

AS focused connected Yamal's narration with Raphinha, who scored twice, saying that the attacking duo had "a lethal connection" successful the European match.

Mundo Deportivo, meanwhile, focused connected Yamal's goal, noting it's value astatine a cardinal signifier of the match, with the attacker making the breakthrough.

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What adjacent for Yamal and Barcelona?

Barcelona mislaid back-to-back matches towards the extremity of October, going down 4-2 to Paris Saint-Germain successful the Champions League earlier suffering a 2-1 nonaccomplishment to Real Madrid successful La Liga.

However, the effect to those results person been impressive, with the Catalan squad winning 6-1 against Alaves astatine the play earlier beating Villa 3-0 connected Tuesday night.

Hansi Flick's broadside volition present beryllium aiming to marque it 3 wins successful a enactment erstwhile they caput to the Spanish superior connected Sunday to instrumentality connected Atletico Madrid successful La Liga.

Barcelona's archetypal lucifer aft the November planetary interruption is against Villarreal connected November 22, earlier heading to Sabah successful the Champions League 3 days later.

November volition past extremity with a league fixture against Deportivo La Coruna.