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Barcelona centurion Lamine Yamal is incredible but Lionel Messi comparisons need to stop

Lamine Yamal played his 100th game for Barcelona against Inter on Wednesday.

Just stop and take that sentence in for a moment.

A player that isn’t 18 until July has already made a century of appearances at the greatest club in the world.

To put that into context, Lionel Messi was 20 years and 248 days, whilst previous youngest centurion, Gavi, was 19 years and 29 days old.

What’s more, they’re not token appearances for Lamine either. Not a 10 minute cameo here and there. He is running the show. Let’s call it as it is.