🙈 Three nutmegs in one half: Bundesliga star terrorised by Yamal!

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2 July 2026

It promised to be the duel of this match:

Konrad Laimer

at left-back and

Lamine Yamal

on the right wing went head-to-head in the round of 32 clash between

Austria

and

Spain

Did this world-class matchup produce a winner?

Well, if you only look at the number of nutmegs handed out, that victory clearly goes to Yamal.

–

Thursday, 2 July 2026

In the first half alone, the 18-year-old nutmegged Laimer no fewer than three times. At times, the

Bayern

star looked quite old against his opponent ten years his junior, in the truest sense of the word.

But the full truth is this: in Spain’s 3–0 win over

, Yamal won only 38 percent of his duels. Laimer, meanwhile, came out on top in 57 percent of them. Still, that probably won’t do much to console him over the defeat...

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence.

You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.

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