Inter Milan forward Marcus Thuram has claimed that there are still two players better than Lamine Yamal after facing the wonderkid. Yamal, 17, got the football talking on Wednesday with a remarkable performance in the two teams' semi-final first leg.

Thuram and Yamal both got on the scoresheet, , having found themselves 2-0 down after just 21 minutes. Barcelona's teenage sensation started his side's comeback with an excellent curling strike before hitting the crossbar two minutes later.

Yamal also hit the bar in the second half, nearly making it 4-3 to the hosts. The international, who's already played 100 games at club level and won two trophies this season, received rave reviews for his electric display, .

But Thuram disagrees. The 27-year-old reckons that both and , who he's team-mates with for , are better than Yamal.

"The best player in the world is French," Thuram declared post-match. "And the second best, too. After that, Lamine Yamal... The best players are Dembele and Mbappe."

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His Inter colleagues were full of praise, with centre-back Alessandro Bastoni claiming: "He is amazing, there's not much to say. It's unbelievable he's only 17 years old, unbelievable. The work Barcelona is doing at La Masia is fantastic."

Boss added: "I haven't seen a player like Lamine Yamal in the last eight or nine years. We had to put three players on him. Talents like Yamal are born once every 50 years."

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Inzaghi's kind words were put to Barcelona manager , who labelled Yamal a 'genius'. "I'm really happy that this talent that comes every 50 years plays for Barca," Flick said. "Lamine in the first half was so important for us. He created so many positive things and got the first goal.

"In the big matches, you see the quality of this player and he showed it today. It's really good to have him. He's special, he's a genius. You see all the details and it's unbelievable how he does this."

The Barca boss will be hoping for the same kind of performance from Yamal when the teams do battle again in Milan next Tuesday.

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