Lamine Yamal now youngest player to score 10 Champions League goals | OneFootball

Lamine Yamal continues to tear through football’s age-based records, and his latest goal against Newcastle United has now seen him take another landmark away from Kylian Mbappe.

According to Mundo Deportivo, the Barcelona wonderkid has become the youngest highest-scoring player in Champions League history before turning 19. His penalty against Newcastle, which made it 3-2 on the night, was his 10th goal in the competition and took him past Mbappe’s previous benchmark.

That is what makes the achievement so remarkable. Lamine reached double figures in the Champions League at just 18 years and 245 days, while Mbappe needed until 18 years and 350 days to get there. In other words, the Barcelona star did not just match the record; he beat it with more than three months to spare.

For a player still so young, that puts him in extraordinary company. After Lamine and Mbappe, the next names on the list are Raul Gonzalez with six goals and Bojan Krkic with five, which only underlines how far ahead of the curve the current Barcelona winger already is.

There is also a sense that this may not be the end of the story. Lamine will have the chance to move even further clear in the next round against Atletico Madrid, where he could score his 11th Champions League goal and set an even more untouchable mark for future generations.

For Barcelona, this is yet another reminder that they are watching something special unfold in real time. Lamine Yamal is not just breaking youth records for the sake of novelty anymore. He is rewriting the history books of Europe’s biggest competition, and after Newcastle, one of Mbappe’s milestones now belongs to him.