Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal breaks Jude Bellingham UCL record

Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal breaks Jude Bellingham UCL record

Barcelona starlet Lamine Yamal has on Thursday continued to etch his name ever further into the history books of European football.

This comes by way of his latest start on the continent.

In the club’s Champions League season opener, the Blaugrana have made the trip to the Stade Louis II, for a meeting with Ligue 1 outfit AS Monaco.

Barca, of course, marked their return to European action a short time ago

The aforementioned Lamine, as expected, was afforded a place in the visitors’ starting XI for the clash, taking his place on the right of Barcelona’s frontline.

And, as alluded to above, in the process, the Spanish international has secured for himself a place in the history books.

As revealed by Bleacher Report, Lamine has tonight overtaken the trio of Jude Bellingham, Youri Tielemans and Warren Zaïre-Emery as the player aged 17 or under with the most appearances in the Champions League.

Sevilla have gotten off to an abysmal start to their La Liga campaign. Four games in and they have only managed to achieve two away draws, losing twice at home.

Despite worrying signs that not much has changed at the Andalucian club, midfielder Saúl Ñiguez has spoken out against the criticism that the club has received.

Speaking on his personal X account, Saúl said, “I understand the criticism, but it’s not the best time, let’s all stick together and we’ll change this situation, I’m sure. I have confidence in the work the team is doing. It’s only a matter of time.”

This isn’t something new for Sevilla, as their poor 14th-placed finish last season often had players reacting in the same way to poor results before managers then take the hit and lose their jobs.

It will be interesting to see how the boardroom staff at the club will react this time around if results don’t start going their way. Will they continue with the revolving door tactic? Or will they give García Pimienta a chance to enact his vision?

Either way, the club will be looking to turn things around after the international break, when they will head to a Getafe side that has also struggled, in their best chance to get a win so far at this early stage.

Perhaps the international break will allow some of the newer players to settle in and make more of an impact than they have done so far at the same time.