Lamine Yamal, 16, is the youngest goal scorer at the European Football Championships. Spain’s young star struck in style in Tuesday’s semi-final against France.
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of Spain Lamine Yamal caused the football world to stir already in the early moments of Tuesday’s European Championship semi-final.
Yamal got the ball a good 20 meters away from the French goal when 20 minutes had been played. The young man misled France Adrien Rabiot a couple of times while creating space for himself.
After that, a shot that curled into the goal through the back post went off wonderfully, with which Spain tied the game at 1-1 just a few minutes after France’s opening goal.
– Making history! This is art, Urheilu’s expert Antti Pohja went wild in the newsroom.
– That’s when Rabiot was taken to the nakki kiosk. A free leg and a very stylish kick technique performance. Goes around so far that it is difficult for the goalkeeper to catch the ball.
At the age of 16 years and 362 days, Yamal is the youngest goal scorer throughout the European Championships. The previous record holder was Swiss Johan Vonlanthen, who was almost two years older at the 2004 tournament. He also scored the equalizer against France.
Yamal is also the youngest player in European Championship history, the youngest player and scorer in FC Barcelona, and the youngest scorer in the Spanish Premier League.
Yamal’s goal expectation was 0.04. This means that, based on the simulations, the corresponding shot should hit the target only four times out of a hundred.
– Crazy shot. Perfect shot for that. Just the right height, and falls well, Urheilu’s expert Toni Koskela said.
The hit was the first situational goal into France’s net in this tournament. In addition to the goal, Barcelona’s super promise has scored three goals in the EC tournament.
– In this tournament, Yamal has had many much easier places to score. He then left it at that. Great goal, laughed Markus Halsti.
The goal also had a special detail, as Yamal scored an almost similar goal a year ago. In the under-17s, he cut in from the right to the center and loaded a left-footed shot that flew into the top left corner of the goal.
Even then it was against France, and the semi-final of the EC tournament was played.
Yamal was five years old when Spain won the men’s European Championship last time in 2012. In the previous European Championship, they were eliminated in the semi-finals after losing a penalty shootout against Italy.
Yamal celebrates his 17th birthday on Saturday, the day before the final.
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