Lamine Yamal's first goal against Aston Villa in Barcelona's 3-0 win allowed him to overtake Kylian Mbappe to become the all-time U20 Champions League goalscorer.
Lamin Yamal recorded another important achievement in the match of the general stage of the Champions League between "Barcelona" and "Aston Villa".
The Spanish football player took advantage of a mistake by the defenders of the Birmingham City team and scored a brilliant left-footed shot into the goal. The same goal was the beginning of the victory of "Barcelona" with a score of 3:0. Rafinha also scored a double in this match.
This is Yamal's 14th goal in the Champions League. Until now, no football player has reached such a mark before reaching the age of 20.
Before this match, Yamal and Kylian Mbappe were on the first place with 13 goals. But the goal of the young footballer of "Barcelona" against the team of Unai Emery allowed him to become the owner of the absolute record.
Currently, Yamal is 19 years old and will turn 20 next July. Therefore, until he reaches this age, he has the opportunity to improve his performance even more. It is worth mentioning that the final of the 2026/27 season of the Champions League will be held on June 5, 2027 at the "Metropolitano" stadium.
It took Yamal 37 games to score 14 goals in the Champions League. Mbappe scored 13 goals in 23 games with Monaco and PSG before the age of 20. Although the French forward's goalscoring record is better in terms of number of games, Yamal has seen more playing time in the competition due to his early start to his career. Also, it should be taken into account that both football players play in different positions.
Yamal played his first game in the Champions League at the age of 16 years, 2 months and 6 days. Mbappe, on the other hand, came to the field at the age of 17 years, 9 months and 7 days. Until the age of 20, the French striker played only 15 games in this tournament.
After Yamal and Mbappe, the Norwegian striker Erling Holland is in the list of the best scorers of the Champions League among football players under the age of 20. He scored 10 goals in just 8 games, which is a remarkable result in terms of the ratio of the number of games and goals. Patrick Kluivert, Karim Benzema and Jude Bellingham are also on this list.
In the history of "Barcelona" in the Champions League, Yamal equaled Gerard Pique and Ronaldinho with 14 goals. He is now just one goal behind Pedro Rodríguez and Hristo Stoichkov's record.
If Yamal scores two more goals, he will overtake all these players and enter the top ten scorers of "Barcelona" in the most prestigious European club competition.
This new record further adds to the impressive achievements of the young Catalan footballer. Yamal is already the youngest football player to play for Barcelona, as well as the youngest representative of the club in the Champions League and the youngest football player to be included in the main team of the competition.
Translated automatically from Tajik.
Source: Varzish TV · varzishtv.tj
