Lamine Yamal is the dribbling king of 2025: one step away from Messi’s record

A very important personal achievement that adds to the team achievements of the current calendar year, with numbers constantly growing in view of the continuation of the season with the Blaugrana.

Another wonderful year for Lamine Yamal at Barcelona, ​​which consecrated his growth even further, making him achieve records and important goals. One of these was missed, even attacking Leo Messi’s numbers. As reported by the Spanish newspaper Brand Indeed, Yamal was crowned the king of dribbling for 2025, narrowly failing to beat the record held by the Argentine. A very important personal achievement that adds to the team achievements of the current calendar year, with numbers constantly growing in view of the continuation of the season with the Blaugrana.

Lamine Yamal king of dribbling for 2025

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As the well-known Iberian newspaper writes, Lamine Yamal’s 2025 numbers are truly incredible. The strong Spanish footballer has collected 285 successful dribbles, leading Doku of Manchester Cityspaced at 155. Mbappé completes the podium of the three most imaginative and incisive players, with 144 points. Aiming at the man and freeing himself by dribbling is one of Yamal’s favorite skills, confirming the same trend for the current season too. From August to December, he is already leading the dribbling rankings with 69 successful dribbles, again significantly distancing second-placed Mbappé with 47 points and third-placed Nico Williams and Vinicius with 37.

Leo Messi’s record one step away

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But that’s not all: the Catalan player also came very close to beat Leo Messi’s record. The Argentine achieved a score of 297 successful dribbles in 2015. Only 12 more than Yamal, which still remains in second place in history of Barcelona. There is plenty of time to beat him in the coming years, confirming important numbers in all competitions: since August he has collected 98 dribbles divided into 69 in League21 in Champions League and 8 in Copa del Rey also missing six matches between September and October, due to an annoying pubalgia.