Lamine Yamal breaks Vini Jr record and shows there is still plenty more to offer Barcelona

Lamine Yamal continues to interruption records and found himself arsenic 1 of Barcelona’s starring figures successful LaLiga. In Saturday’s 3-1 triumph implicit Sevilla, the guardant became the youngest subordinate successful the past of the Spanish apical formation to scope 50 assists, crossed each competitions.

With 2 assists against Sevilla, some for Raphinha, the fig 10 moved to 51 vocation assists astatine the property of 19 years and 68 days. He surpassed the erstwhile record, held by Vinicius Junior, who reached the aforesaid milestone successful 2023 nether Carlo Ancelotti astatine Real Madrid, aged 22 years and 298 days, according to Opta.

Yamal needed 153 appearances for Barcelona to surpass the mark, averaging 1 assistance each 3 matches. When Vinicius Jr reached 50 assists for Real Madrid, the fig 7 was playing alongside Karim Benzema and Rodrygo successful attack, earlier his concern with Jude Bellingham and Kylian Mbappé. He had, however, already won the Champions League, a trophy Yamal is chasing this season.

In summation to reaching the milestone 3 years younger than Vinicius Jr, Yamal besides needed less appearances. While the Spanish prima has made 153 appearances for Barcelona truthful far, Vinicius Jr reached 50 assists aft 220 matches, averaging 0.22 assists per game.

Lamine Yamal made his Barcelona debut younger than Vinicius Jr

Yamal’s record, arsenic good arsenic his performances, tin besides beryllium explained by his aboriginal instauration to elder shot successful Spain. Developed done Barcelona’s academy, helium made his first-team debut for the nine astatine the property of 15 years, 9 months and 16 days successful April 2023. He was promoted to the elder broadside by then-manager Xavi Hernandez and has remained determination ever since.

Vinicius Jr did not marque his Real Madrid debut until aft reaching adulthood, contempt having been signed from Flamengo successful May 2017, aged 16 astatine the clip of the agreement. The guardant continued his improvement with the Brazilian nine earlier moving to the Spanish capital.

He made his debut for Los Blancos nether Julen Lopetegui, but played lone constricted minutes nether the manager during the 2018/19 play earlier the accomplishment of Zinedine Zidane. There is besides a three-year spread betwixt Yamal’s debut and that of Vinicius Jr. Before the French manager took complaint of Real Madrid, Vinícius had made conscionable 14 minutes of appearances for the club.

“He was going done a play of adaptation. To make successful immoderate profession, the origin of clip is precise important. Coming from different state and different culture, it was bully for him to bid each time and beryllium astir the different players. Everything would hap successful its ain time,” Lopetegui said astatine the time, aft being dismissed by Real Madrid.

Since then, Vinicius Jr has won the Champions League doubly with Real Madrid, LaLiga 3 times and the Club World Cup 3 times. In 2024, 1 twelvemonth aft mounting the assistance record, helium was named the world’s champion subordinate astatine FIFA’s The Best awards and finished 2nd successful the Ballon d’Or, awarded by France Football.

Yamal enters the Ballon d’Or contention this season

Yamal is not lone 1 of the players making headlines aft the latest LaLiga record, but is besides among the contenders for the Ballon d’Or this season. Last year, the Barcelona guardant finished 2nd successful the award, which was won by Paris Saint-Germain’s Ousmane Dembele. This season, nether Hansi Flick, helium has erstwhile again stood retired successful Barcelona’s attack.

For the Catalan club, Yamal has made 45 appearances, scoring 24 goals and providing 18 assists. He was besides 1 of Luis de la Fuente’s regular starters arsenic Spain won their 2nd consecutive World Cup rubric successful the United States. Although his numbers astatine the tourney were not peculiarly impressive, with lone 1 extremity during Spain’s campaign, helium remains firmly successful the Ballon d’Or conversation.

In 2026/27, the guardant has already produced awesome numbers for Barcelona. He has scored 8 goals successful 8 matches, portion besides providing six assists. Alongside Raphinha, the skipper of the Catalan side, the youngster is 1 of the main attacking references successful Flick’s team.

Top of LaLiga, Barcelona volition present hold for the planetary interruption to extremity earlier returning to action. Yamal and Raphinha, for example, are acceptable to correspond Spain and Brazil respectively implicit the coming weeks. Barcelona volition instrumentality to enactment connected 10 October against Getafe connected the eighth matchday of the Spanish apical flight.