Lamine Yamal: Best in the World?
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Who is Lamine Yamal and why is he in the spotlight?
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Hello welcome into the latest edition of espnfck Murray Craig Burley who's back from vacation here in the studio.
Have I got a tan?
Looking fresh.
Have I got a tan?
Yep, got a little bit of a desperate tan there. Looks happy, ready, just in time for the Champions League to come back.
Why lie?
You do, you look good. You look good, you look well rested.
Well, I'm looking forward to the Champions League for sure. Some of these FA Cup games have been surprising. And I missed all the Arsenal chat about it being boring, so I was quite happy with that.
Yeah, you don't agree with that.
No, of course not. The others just need to be better.
We will get there. We will absolutely get there. And as Craig mentioned, FA Cup chat too. But only one place to start tonight, and that is Laminia Mal doing it all himself once again for Barcelona.
Goal!
Blink. Can you miss him? Magical from a mercurial teenager.
It's a 68-minute goal, the difference in the game against Athletic, giving Barcelona all three points, Lisbon 2 saying at his feet, Mundo saying a goal worth a league and Sport saying with a great goal and a four-point advantage, that is, in the Liga table, with Real Madrid second behind them after they'd won their game on Friday. Alex Kirkland is with us for today's show.
What were the Madrid people saying?
What were the Madrid people saying? Praising La Minamal. They are, of course, Spanish, so they'll be happy with that.
Praising La Minamal? Yes, absolutely.
Excuse me for not knowing which area the papers are from. It's got to that point where even they can't deny it.
Well, I think they can.
Well, we'll be talking a lot about Luminium L tonight, and do not worry. But let's start, Alex, with you, if we can, because we're talking about someone, we already talk about him all the time, playing at a different level, but being the difference maker as well, hitting a career high in goals and still doing all of this at just 18 years old.
Yeah, it feels like he's reached a new level. It's not that he didn't have this kind of cutting edge in his game before. Yeah, he's always scored goals, created goals, but he's doing it now with such a degree of consistency. I mean, this was right up there with the best goals that he scored. He's reached the point now where you know what he's going to do. The opponents know what he's going to do. He's going to cut inside and curl it on his left foot into the top corner. But he's so good at it that nobody can stop it. It can't be prevented. You know, we've seen players like this in the past that they've got this trick that they are just so good at. It's borderline unstoppable. And yeah, he's delivering in a way that...
We hadn't even seen in previous years. You can see that he's on course right now, you know, for certainly his best ever, certainly by far best ever goal scoring season. If he, if he carries on scoring goals at anything like this rate for the rest of the, of the season, it's great news for Barca in terms of the league. It's great news for Barca in terms of the champions league as well. It's bad news for everybody else. Who's trying to stop it. It's like, like I say right now, even though you've got a pretty good idea of what he's going to do when he gets on the ball in that kind of position, he can't be stopped.
Yeah, this was never expected to be easy, this game. Obviously, they had that return leg in the Copa del Rey against Atleti that they didn't manage to turn around, but they gave the big fight.
It was close, though, wasn't it? It was close. Which is when we did the first leg, and I said to Dan at the time, I said, I know this sounds strange, but this tie is not over.
So then there was a worry about this game.
How is Barcelona performing ahead of their UCL matchup?
Sam Ames, it's going to be difficult, and here's the difference.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Lamine Yamal and why is he in the spotlight?
0:00–3:51
2
How is Barcelona performing ahead of their UCL matchup?
3:51–10:20
3
What challenges is Real Madrid facing this season?
10:20–15:57
4
What are the predictions for Real Madrid vs Manchester City?
15:57–20:39
5
Can Arsenal achieve a quadruple this season?
20:39–25:38
6
What are the implications of Arsenal's recent performances?
25:38–29:27
7
How does the crew analyze the Champions League matchups?
29:27–35:20
8
What are the final thoughts on the current state of European football?
35:20–1:03:17
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