France midfielder Adrien Rabiot has challenged Spain’s 16-year-old starlet Lamine Yamal to step up his game ahead of their Euro 2024 semi-final. Despite his age, Lamine Yamal has never shown much fear on the pitch, and neither is he as shy as he might be off it.

Rabiot told the media ahead of the semi-final that he must do more if he wants to make it to the final on Sunday, which Spain star Rodri Hernandez called ‘part of the game’.

France midfielder Adrien Rabiot:

“If Yamal wants to play in a final he has to show more things than he has done.”#Euro2024 #LaRoja (Cadena SER) pic.twitter.com/2qjBaVj0pH

— Football España (@footballespana_) July 9, 2024

However Lamine Yamal has responded with a thinly-veiled Instagram story, as shared by Cadena SER. He put up a graphic saying ‘Move in silence, speak only when it’s time to say checkmate’,

Spain are certainly in confident form, and with three assists to his name, the teenage sensation has outperformed any of France’s forwards. All the same, it will be a debut in a senior semi-final for Lamine Yamal, and Les Bleus will no doubt be employing all of their vast experience to stop him.

Flick and Thiago held a meeting this afternoon to lay the foundations for the new project. @JijantesFC

— barcacentre (@barcacentre) July 8, 2024

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