This Yamal Assist Is Genius🧠

[0:00]This assist from Lamine Yamal proves he's a genius. Kounde wins the aerial battle and sends it into the path of Lamine, who scans his shoulder twice before receiving and can see significant space to exploit. Lamine drives into the space and can see Raphinha making a run into the box, but instead of playing the pass, Yamal raises his right hand to signal to Raphinha to stop his run. Lamine instead dribbles at the nearest defender and waits for him to plant his back foot so he can swiftly cut inside to create a gap between himself and the defender. Now with space, Lamine swings his arms and plants his right foot next to the ball, which are important details when going for a long range shot. But just when the two defenders ahead are ready to block, Lamine fakes the shot and explodes into the space on the outside. This is the crazy part. Another defender steps over to cover the lane, but Lamine takes two touches inside and it looks like he'll actually shoot this time, right? But because everyone is expecting the shot, all the defenders on the back post switch off and forget to track Raphinha's run. So Lamine perfectly swings the pass disguised as a shot onto the back post for the goal.