Why Lamine Yamal is already better than Messi in some ways

It's useless to compare Yamal and Messi at the same age -- and that's because Yamal has already lapped Messi, multiple times. By the end of his age-17 season (the age he was when the season started), Messi had scored one LaLiga goal. So, as of now, Yamal is already 37 goals and assists ahead of Messi. Yamal is just not the best player in the world yet -- but he's also not that far away. That's higher than his post-shot number, which means he's producing worse attempts than we'd expect from the shots he's getting.