He said via Mundodeportivo:"Lamine Yamal is going to win a lot of titles both collective and individual. "Yamal is only 17 years old... I repeat: he's a kid with a lot of room for improvement. "He's a phenomenon,

Cristiano Ronaldo has hailed Lamine Yamal as a “phenomenon” while calling for the football world to “leave him alone”. Ronaldo, whose Portugal side beat Yamal’s Spain on penalties in the Nations League final on Sunday,

It was billed as Cristiano Ronaldo vs. Lamine Yamal, a night when the baton would pass from one football superstar to the next, but when the decisive moment came in Portugal's UEFA Nations League final win against Spain,