Yamal's impact on the team's play is hard to replace when the forward is missing, as evidenced by a handful of games which he missed injured or was benched in for a rest. Without the winger starting,

FC Barcelona has unearthed a young talent that the Spanish media has dubbed the "new Lamine Yamal", and who is currently scoring goals for fun in La Masia.

When Lamine Yamal glided past two Real Madrid defenders before coolly tucking the ball just inside the post, it was hard not to get a shiver that Lionel Messi was back in a Barcelona shirt.