Inter-striker Marcus Thuram has rejected the idea that Lamine Yamal is the best player in the world, one night in which experts, players and press were seduced by a brilliant performance of the 17-year-old. Barcelona's teenager scored the opener of Barcelona and hit the woodwork twice, but stood in the heart of everything the Blaugrana did.
It was Marcus Thuram who opened the score for Inter in the first minute with an excellent film. After the game there was almost a unanimous consensus that Lamine Yamal was there at his age with the best ever, and some started asking if there was currently someone in the world.
“No, I don't think so. The best player in the world is French. The second best player, I think, is also French. They are Ousmane [Dembele] and Kylian [Mbappe]”Thuram explained to Canal+, as worn by Marca.” Yamal is perhaps the third, “Turam admitted.
Wherever he is, left-back Federico Dimarco had a hard time with Lamine Yamal. Thuram explained that he told the Italian defender during the game.
“I encouraged Dimarco and told him it was normal for Yamal to pass, that he always, regardless of what we did, but that we should not give up and keep wearing him.”
“You can not stop such players alone; you can do it as a team. Two-on-one marking? Maybe eleven-on-one marking. We will see what the coach is asking of us,” he said about their plans to put him in the second stage.
One of the headlines after the game was the words of Inter Manager Simone Inzaghi, who had the following to say, as quoted by The Times (via Siempre Barca).
“I had never seen him before. I haven't seen such a player in eight-nine years. He is the kind of talent that comes every 50 years.”
Despite the fact that he was in reasonable spirits in his interview after the game, Lamine Yamal admitted that he was frustrated about the fact that his game could not win the game. Barcelona will kick themselves that they admitted in the first minute and from two set pieces as they did. That said, Lamine Yamal and the success their attack had, they will hope they can get a result in Milan. Certainly the French international teammate Adrien Rabiot will be able to tell Thuram that it is a risky strategy that Lamine Yamal challenges in this state of form, after the semi -final of Euro 2024. However, he will undoubtedly feel obliged to support his teammates Dembele and Mbappe.