Lamine Yamal became the youngest Barcelona player to score a La Liga hat-trick at 18 years and 230 days, netting three goals in a 4-1 victory over Villarreal on Saturday. The teenager's first hat-trick came with two superb first-half strikes and a third after the break, before he was substituted as agreed with manager Hansi Flick.
Yamal's second goal was particularly stunning, as he lifted the ball over an opponent's foot near the byline before curling it into the net. His mother Sheila Ebana watched from the stands, while his father Mounir Nasraoui celebrated on Instagram, calling his son 'number one'. The match ball was given to his mother after the game.
The hat-trick makes Yamal the youngest Barcelona player to achieve the feat in La Liga, and only the third youngest in the competition's history, behind José Iragorri and Pablo Pombo in the 1930s. Barcelona's all-time youngest hat-trick scorer remains Paulino Alcántara, aged 15 in 1915.
Yamal's performance came despite observing Ramadan, with one columnist noting he had not yet eaten. The win moved Barcelona up the table, with Robert Lewandowski adding a fourth goal late on.
