{"id":575,"date":"2026-05-31T09:29:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T09:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=575"},"modified":"2026-05-31T09:29:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T09:29:05","slug":"lamine-yamal-reveals-his-lionel-messi-cristiano-ronaldo-themed-goal-after-earning-comparisons-to-goats-with-barcelona-spain-performances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"Lamine Yamal reveals his Lionel Messi &#038; Cristiano Ronaldo-themed \u2018goal\u2019 after earning comparisons to GOATs with Barcelona &#038; Spain performances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"C\">\n<div>\n<p><span>Yamal has made it clear that his ultimate &#8220;goal&#8221; is to reach the sustained heights achieved by the two men who defined modern football for two decades. He wants to ensure that his current form is not just a flash in the pan but the start of a long career at the summit. Yamal also does not want to be complacent about Spain&#8217;s status as one of the tournament&#8217;s champions after successfully becoming Euro champions two years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;It\u2019s funny, because at the EURO it was the other way round. Nobody really had us down as champions, and that worked for us. Being the favourites doesn\u2019t mean anything once you\u2019re on the pitch. It doesn\u2019t give you an edge or help you score more goals. You still have to take it match by match. There are a lot of strong teams \u2013 Argentina, France, Portugal, England \u2013 and everyone is at their best at the World Cup. For us, it\u2019s about giving everything for Spain and trusting the way we play because, in my book, we play the best football,&#8221; Yamal stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yamal has made it clear that his ultimate &#8220;goal&#8221; is to reach the sustained heights achieved by the two men&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}