Raum: “Lamine Yamal is no longer a child”

David Raum, Germany’s defense, assured this Monday in a press conference Lamine Yamal, who he will face in the quarterfinals of the Euro Cup, “is not young anymore” and highlighted the “brutal quality” that the Spanish team player has.

Germany and Spain face each other in the next round of the Euro Cup and the danger on the side of the German team surrounds the German team.e Luis de la Fuente with Lamine Yamal and with Nico Williams. space, holding with Julian Nagelsmann against Denmark in the round of 16, he made it clear that, despite being 16 years old, Yamal is already a made player.

It’s not just Lamine Yamal and Nico

“I think they are two ‘top’ players, but not just the two of them, but the whole Spanish team. For example, they also Dani Olmo, one of the pillars of Leipzig (his club and where the same teammates). Of course, their two dribblers are also important and age is no longer a problem in football. Yamal has been playing in Barcelona’s first team and the national team for a long time. That’s why Yamal is no longer young. “It has a brutal quality,” he highlighted.

Raum acknowledged that Germany will face a “difficult task” to stop its two rivals and when asked if the match between his team and Spain was an “early final,” he replied that he did not know, but the statement that is a compliment. for ‘Mannschaft’. “In reality, we see each game as a final,” he noted.

Asked about the competition in Mittelstädt every game to occupy a space at left back, said that he and his teammate make it “very difficult” for their coach, who, in his opinion, lives in a “perfect situation” because he can rotate and the quality “continues. to be the same”.

Joke with Dani Olmo

Besides, he even joked Dani Olmo, that he said he was blocked on the phone so he couldn’t talk to him before the game. “No, man, he’s a very good friend, we have a good harmony. He’s hard to stop, he’s an incredible player, but we’ll find a way,” concluded Raum.