Undeniably, the Real Madrid collective at the present time is far inferior to the Barca collective. However, the continuous performances of Raphinha and Yamal in the classic matches this season, especially the Sunday evening match, are very important scores for the Ballon D’Or race of the Barca duo.
These two stars joined hands to destroy Real Madrid in the last El Clasico match of the 2024/25 season. When Kylian Mbappe made a double after 14 minutes, lighting the fragile hope of a victory at Olimpic Lluis Lluis Company for Los Blancos, Yamal and Raphinha have extinguished all their light rays at the end of their tunnel.
With a super product in the 32nd minute, the Spanish football prodigy brought two teams back to the starting line (Eric Garcia shortened the score to 1-2 earlier). More importantly, it was a huge mental push for just 2 minutes later, Barca completed the comeback in the first half. The scorer was none other than Raphinha.
By the last minute of the first half, the Brazilian star punished Real Madrid’s defense with a goal to raise the score to 4-2. Being led 2 goals, then turning back 4-2 (the final 4-3 when Mbappe scored the third goal for Real in the 70th minute), could only be Barca’s style. And of course, the Hansi Flick’s team can only do it when they own two of the most sudden stars in the world football in this time, Yamal and Raphinha.
Less than 4 days later, it was eliminated from the No. 1 European playground, Yamal and Raphinha put aside the sadness to the Barca to end the season as best as possible. With 7 points more than the rival, while the season has only 3 last round, Barca almost pocketed the La Liga 2024/25 championship, which is throughout the excellent performances of this attacking duo.
Obviously, the performance of both is still extremely impressive even though Barca has been eliminated in the Champions League. In the race to the 2025 Golden Ball title, they were somewhat weaker than Ousmane Dembele. PSG’s star is the number one candidate. He made a special impression in 2025 and considering the whole season is also very successful.
Dembele has 33 goals, 11 assists after 46 matches for PSG from the beginning of the season. Raphinha is more impressive in statistics with 32 goals, 22 assists after 53 matches for Barca. And Yamal is 15 goals, 22 assists after 51 matches at the age of 17 for Barca. Obviously, the distance between current candidates is not too large. Especially Yamal with top -notch performances.
If PSG loses Inter in the Champions League final, it can be said that Ballon D’Or 2025 will belong to Barcelona? Let’s wait and see the next developments in the most noble personal title race this year.
Second Yamal, Third Raphinha
According to the dealer William Hill, the latest odds for candidates to win the Golden Ball have changed a bit. Thereby, Dembele from Tuesday has reached the number 1 with the listing ratio of listed 8 to eat 10. Next, Yamal’s ratio is to order 3 food 10, while Raphinha from 1 to Tuesday with the ratio of 1 to 6. The remaining two positions in the Top 5 are Lautaro Martinez (order 1 to 6) and Mohamed Salah (order 1 to eat 7).
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