Lamine Yamal Nasraoui Ebana leads dribbling
Lamine Yamal leads LaLiga with 27 completed dribbles in seven appearances this season, according to StatMuse. The 19-year-old Barcelona forward has played 579 minutes in its match data.
Kylian Mbappé has completed 21 dribbles in seven appearances and 630 minutes, leaving Yamal six ahead. Both forwards have scored seven LaLiga goals in the 2026/27 campaign.
Lamine Yamal leads early dribbling count
Lamine Yamal has completed 27 LaLiga dribbles in seven appearances, compared with 21 by Kylian Mbappé. The six-dribble difference gives Yamal the early lead in their league comparison.
StatMuse records 579 minutes for Yamal and 630 for Mbappé. Those totals work out to approximately 4.2 and 3.0 completed dribbles per 90 minutes, respectively, giving Yamal an advantage of about 1.2 per 90.
Kylian Mbappé stays close behind Yamal
Kylian Mbappé has completed 21 of 36 attempted LaLiga dribbles across seven appearances, a 58.3% success rate. StatMuse records 630 league minutes for the Real Madrid forward.
Mbappé has seven goals and two assists, according to LaLiga. Lamine Yamal also has seven goals but leads the assist comparison 4 to 2 after seven appearances.
Lamine Yamal creates more dribble volume
Lamine Yamal has completed 27 LaLiga dribbles in 579 minutes, according to StatMuse. That works out to approximately 4.2 completed dribbles per 90 minutes.
Kylian Mbappé has completed 21 dribbles in 630 minutes, or 3.0 per 90. Yamal leads in both total completed dribbles and completions per 90 despite playing fewer minutes.
Kylian Mbappé converts take ons efficiently
Kylian Mbappé has completed 21 of 36 attempted LaLiga dribbles this season, a 58.3% success rate through seven appearances.
Against Atlético Madrid on September 20, Mbappé completed three of five attempted dribbles and played the full 90 minutes. Real Madrid lost the derby 2-1 at the Metropolitano.
Fun fact: Kylian Mbappé scored his first Champions League goal for Monaco against Manchester City on February 21, 2017, aged 18 years and 2 months.
Lamine Yamal pairs dribbling with goals
Lamine Yamal has combined 27 completed LaLiga dribbles with seven goals and four assists through seven appearances. His goals and assists give him 11 league goal involvements.
Yamal scored in four consecutive LaLiga matches before Barcelona’s September 19 game against Sevilla. He then assisted two goals in the 3-1 victory, taking his league assist total to four.
Lamine Yamal leads the winger comparison
Lamine Yamal leads the current StatMuse comparison of LaLiga forwards with 27 completed dribbles. Kylian Mbappé follows with 21, leaving Yamal six ahead after seven appearances each.
Yamal also ranks first in StatMuse’s comparison of wingers in Europe’s five major leagues. His seven-match total places him ahead of Mbappé in their LaLiga dribbling comparison.
Kylian Mbappé brings greater shooting volume
Kylian Mbappé has taken 31 shots in seven LaLiga appearances according to the latest official league profile, compared with 29 shots for Lamine Yamal. Both forwards have scored seven league goals during the current campaign.
Mbappé’s seven goals include a hat trick against Real Sociedad on August 26, while Yamal’s seven include two goals against both Rayo Vallecano and Valencia. The two players therefore share the league scoring total despite different shot and dribbling profiles.
Lamine Yamal has already broken records
Lamine Yamal has scored in four consecutive LaLiga matches during the 2026/27 season, surpassing his previous personal best of three straight scoring appearances. Barcelona confirmed the new mark on September 18, 2026.
Yamal also matched Lionel Messi’s 21st century LaLiga record by scoring three braces across the opening five league matches. Messi previously achieved the same feat during the 2012/13 season against Real Sociedad, Osasuna and Getafe.
Kylian Mbappé matches Yamal’s scoring total
Kylian Mbappé has scored seven LaLiga goals in seven appearances during the 2026/27 campaign, matching Lamine Yamal’s total. Mbappé has started all seven of Real Madrid’s league matches and played 630 minutes.
Mbappé scored a hat trick against Real Sociedad on August 26, after Madrid had already opened its league campaign against Espanyol. He subsequently scored against Málaga, Rayo Vallecano and Elche. His latest league goal came in Madrid’s 3-2 victory at Elche on September 15.
Lamine Yamal has a wider creative output
Lamine Yamal has recorded four LaLiga assists this season, twice Kylian Mbappé’s two. Both players have seven league goals, meaning Yamal currently has 11 league goal involvements compared with Mbappé’s nine.
Yamal produced two assists during Barcelona’s 3-1 victory over Sevilla on September 19. Mbappé recorded one assist in Real Madrid’s 3-2 win against Elche on September 15, according to the latest Opta Analyst player records.
Lamine Yamal owns the recent dribbling record
Lamine Yamal completed 145 LaLiga dribbles during the 2024/25 season, the highest single-season total recorded in Europe’s five major leagues in the available StatMuse data. He followed that performance with 127 successful dribbles in 2025/26.
Kylian Mbappé completed 73 LaLiga dribbles during the 2025/26 season, according to the same statistical database. Mbappé still produced 25 league goals that season, while Yamal recorded 16 goals and 11 assists in 28 LaLiga appearances.
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Lamine Yamal and Mbappé enter a new race
Lamine Yamal enters the next stage of the 2026/27 season with 27 completed LaLiga dribbles, compared with 21 for Kylian Mbappé. Yamal leads their seven-match comparison by six.
Both forwards have seven league goals. Yamal leads assists 4 to 2 and completed dribbles 27 to 21, giving him the edge in these measures of dribbling and creation while the two remain level on goals.
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This slideshow was made with AI assistance and human editing.
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