XAVI FULLY TRUSTS YAMAL
Could Lamine Yamal be the next great right winger Barca need?
Published:5/08/2023 - 19:15h
Updated:5/08/2023 - 19:15h
Lamine Yamal was already in Barça's orbit to be part of the first team, but now with the departure of Dembélé, it seems that he may have an opportunity to have more minutes as a right winger. Although the competition will not be easy, he is considered a highly valued option
Ousmane Dembélé Is next to turn into player of Paris Saint-Germain. Without the 'Mosquito', open several possibilities, being Raphinha the favourite. Also they mention names like Ez Abde, an extreme with similar characteristics to the French that can play in this position, and Ferran Torres, although Xavi seems to see it more like an alternative to play in the centre. Therefore, all the signals aim to that Lamine Yamal would be one of the most adapted options for suplir the absence of the French player.
In spite of his short age, only 16 years, the espluguense has the merits to be one of the favourites. The technician of Terrassa seems to have a lot of confidence in his talent, backed by the opinion of his trainers in his formative stage. It can play in any position of the front of attack, although it feels more comfortable like right extreme.
His technicians in the inferior culés endorse this approach
Albert Puig, the one who directed it in the Childish B and in the stage of Benjamín, stands out that his best position is like right extreme, although it also can play as false nine. Puig elogia his natural capacity for desbordar, his intelligence to know when open and when receive inside, and his wide repertoire of skills, that includes to be a glorious pasador, a big driblador and a spectacular striker.
Yamal also has virtues when it plays like false nine. Iván Carrasco, trainer in the Cadet To of the FC Barcelona in the last two seasons, exalta his capacity to be creative and participate a lot in the game, contributing quality to each offensive option in which it participates. Carrasco Coincides with Puig in that his best position in the system of game culé is by the right, but mentions that it is not a pure extreme, but a very special player with details of genius and a natural talent that allows him be very fast of head.
His trainer in the Cadet To during the campaign 2021/2022 highlights his change of lethal rhythm, his exquisite first touch of balloon and his capacity to take good decisions and lose few balloons. Although to his short age has a big margin of physical and technical improvement, Carrasco stands out that to measure that mature, his explosividad and acceleration will be lethal.
Lamine Yamal still has things for improving
Albert Puig praises the skill of Yamal to play with both profiles, not being a left-handed enclosed and not doubting in finishing with his less skillful leg when the situation requires it, but also mentions that it is far to be an ambidiestro and that expects that it follow improving in this appearance. Aunado To this, has to improve in the defensive work, something in what it has been working in inferior categories, but that still does not dominate completely. So much Carrasco like Puig coincide in that in the modern football, the defensive implication is indispensable.
In definite, Lamine Yamal presents like an attractive alternative for the right extreme and a potential title in the future, once that there is polishing all his skills, by something is one of the canteranos that still follow presents in the dynamics of Xavi to these heights. The trainers conclude that everything will depend on his mentality, since his potential is boundless.
