The only reason why Dembele is widely regarded over Yamal is because he won the Uefa champions league. But is the Ballon d’Or award giving based on that? PSG will go as far as they did with many top strikers in Europe but Barcelona will not be the same without Lamine Yamal. When Barcelona needed a hero in games that was almost lost everyone looked at the then seventeen year old Lamine Yamal and more time than not he delivered them.
It’s Yamal for me, Barcelona were so unlucky to have missed out on a place in the final, the match would have been a very big deciding factor in the Dembele and Yamal ballon d’Or rivalry.
It is good you made it very clear that Dembele is widely regarded over Lamine Yamal since he won the champions league trophy ahead of him. Any other criterion you would want to use to make Lamine Yamal a better candidate for this award would just be for your personal preference for him but not based on what he had performed this season. Ousmane Dembele is the right candidate for this award, I just hope he’s not reap off this award but he’s most deserving of it. He also made it to the finals of the FIFA club World Cup and was the talisman of the team just like he was in the champions league, he’s most deserving of it and shouldn’t be denied it.