Lamine Yamal makes La Liga history with 40 assists at 19
Lamine Yamal becomes the first player to reach 40 La Liga assists before age 22, and the first Barça star since Xavi to create seven chances against Atlético.
Barcelona winger Lamine Yamal has set another record in Spain's top flight. At 19 years and 118 days old, he has now recorded 40 assists in La Liga. That makes him the first player in the competition's history to reach the milestone before turning 22.
Yamal leaves Messi and La Liga legends behind
The previous youngest player to reach 40 La Liga assists was Roberto López Ufarte, who did it at 22 years and 15 days. Next on the list is Adrián Escudero, at 22 years and 349 days. Barcelona icon Lionel Messi reached the same tally at 23 years and 158 days. That means the Spain international got there more than four years earlier than the Argentine.
A Xavi-like display against Atlético Madrid
Yamal also made his mark in Barcelona's La Liga meeting with Atlético Madrid, where he created seven chances for his teammates. No Barcelona player had done that in a single league game against Atlético since Xavi Hernández in October 2008.
The numbers show that Yamal has become the creative heartbeat of the Catalan side's attack. Still a teenager, he is already rewriting records that stood for decades. If his form holds, more milestones look likely in the seasons ahead.
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