Lamine Yamal surpasses Mbappé with Champions League scoring record
Lamine Yamal set a Champions League scoring record, becoming the competition’s leading scorer among players before their twentieth birthday and moving past Kylian Mbappé. He reached the milestone as Barcelona beat Aston Villa 3-0.
Lamine Yamal set a Champions League scoring record, becoming the competition’s leading scorer among players before their twentieth birthday and moving past Kylian Mbappé. He did so as Barcelona beat Aston Villa 3-0.
Yamal scored the opening goal, while Raphinha added the other two, taking the Spanish player’s tally in the competition to 14 goals before his twentieth birthday, compared with Mbappé’s 13 at the same age.
The report noted that Mbappé scored his goals before turning twenty during his spells with Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain, while Yamal has the chance to add to his tally as he continues his European career with Barcelona.