As a staunch Lionel Messi fan, I absolutely hate what many Messi fans are doing to Lamine Yamal. There is no reason to be insecure about Lionel Messi. Lamine Yamal has a 0.0000000000000001% chance of matching him. No reason to always want to prove Messi was better. Messi as a teenager did not have the burden of being a star and team leader like Lamine Yamal. So it’s nonsense comparing the impact of both. Lionel Messi, even during some of his primes, faced the exact same criticism like Yamal is facing now. I remember when he played 5 consecutive Liga Clásicos and didn’t get a single G/A. Barça lost 4 of the 5, and only one a game 1-0. The one Clasico Messi was out injured Barcelona won 5-1. The whole narrative was that Messi was a Clasico ghost. Messi never scored a goal against Real Madrid in his Copa Del Rey career. Played about 7 games in total, zero goals, two of them were finals, lost both. I remember the 2014 final where Bale scored that goal, Messi was slandered for not putting effort, I read newspapers then where they said Pinto, our goalie, ran more than him. Messi has 0 G/A against Real Madrid in his last 9 games, he had so many bad games against Real Madrid too. And he was heavily slandered and criticized. I’m not trying to slander Messi, I’m just letting people know that even the greatests have rough days. Especially against good teams that set up to stifle them. Lamine Yamal is 19 and is already seen as best in the world by many, one of the captains, expected to carry a club as huge as Barcelona at such a young age. Yes he had a bad game against Real Madrid, but it happens, and we need to cut him some slack.