Lamine Yamal: Goal in Spain vs France was ‘pure elation’, says sensation

Uefa Euro 2024 record-breaker Lamine Yamal has described his sensational extremity against France arsenic “pure elation” aft helping Spain scope nan last successful Berlin connected Sunday.

Yamal smashed Pele’s grounds arsenic nan youngest scorer astatine a awesome tourney pinch a curling long-range onslaught astatine Munich’s Allianz Arena, curling successful from good extracurricular nan area to tie Spain level successful nan 21st minute.

“I request to thief my squad and that’s what I tried to do today,” said nan 16-year-old. “I was aiming for precisely nan apical area wherever my changeable went successful and that was a emotion of axenic elation.

“I effort not to deliberation excessively overmuch astir what’s going on. I conscionable want to bask myself and thief nan team. Getting to nan last is really special. I was really happy aft nan last whistle. It’s nan dream travel true.”

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Lamine Yamal records

Pele group that grounds astatine nan 1958 Fifa World Cup, wherever nan Brazil icon had besides been nan youngest ever subordinate successful a semi-final astatine a Euro aliases World Cup until Yamal started against France.

The Barcelona midfielder had already provided 2 assists successful Germany but fewer could person expected him to person specified a melodramatic effect connected a crippled against opponents galore had considered favourites for nan title.

Randal Kolo Muani had fixed France an eighth-minute lead earlier Yamal equalised and Dani Olmo fired nan victor 4 minutes later.

Yamal will move 17 connected Saturday, a time earlier Spain bid to grounds a seventh triumph astatine Euro 2024 against England aliases nan Netherlands successful nan last astatine Berlin’s Olympiastadion.

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“I came present to triumph each nan matches truthful that I could observe my day present successful Germany pinch each of my team-mates,” Yamal said.

“I’m thrilled that we are successful nan last but we still haven’t done nan astir important thing, which is triumph this. There were difficult moments for america retired there.

“None of america expected to concede that early. When you scope nan final, you person to play against nan very best. We’ll hold and spot who we get.”

Yamal is simply a crippled distant from winning nan 2nd awesome trophy of his career, having go a Liga champion pinch Barca successful 2022/23.