Barcelona star becomes first player in Europe’s top-5 leagues to hit impressive benchmark | OneFootball

Barcelona star Lamine Yamal this weekend secured for himself an impressive early benchmark across Europe’s top-5 leagues.

This comes owing to his exploits across the Blaugrana’s first two outings of the new season.

Barcelona are of course fresh off making it two wins from two to open the defence of their La Liga title this past weekend.

After making the trip to Valencia for a meeting with Levante, Hansi Flick’s troops recovered from a surprise two-goal deficit, to ultimately emerge on the right side of a 3-2 result.

The aforementioned Lamine proved central in as much, laying on an assist whilst causing all sorts of problems down the visitors’ right flank.

And as alluded to above, such endeavours on the part of the 18-year-old have since given rise to a head-turning statistic.

As revealed by statisticians Squawka:

‘Lamine Yamal is the first player to complete 15 take-ons in Europe’s top five leagues in 2025/26.’

Conor Laird – GSFN