Take a moment to picture a Lamine Yamal goal. The image you have conjured likely looks as follows.Yamal collects the ball on the right wing, cuts inside onto his left foot, and finds the top or bottom-left corner with a rasping shot. Most defenders know what is coming, but what looks like a simple move has often proven unstoppable.The teenager became the youngest player in Barcelona history to score 50 senior club goals with his double against Rayo Vallecano on August 31. Yamal reached the landmark aged 19 years and 49 days, one of many records that have tumbled since he became the youngest to score in La Liga back in October 2023.Among his contemporaries, Kylian Mbappe reached 50 goals aged 19 years and 241 days, while Erling Haaland was 20 years and 196 days. Lionel Messi was 21, and Cristiano Ronaldo was 22.Yamal being thrust into the highest echelon of professional football at 16 is a factor. He has played 156 matches for Barcelona — Mbappe had played 106 when he reached his half century, Haaland had played 78.So how has his goalscoring evolved? Well, the left-footed curler targeting the top-left corner has featured consistently, but Yamal’s quiver now has more arrows…Yamal scored his first goal for Spain, making him the youngest scorer (as well as player) for the men’s national team, a month before his first for Barcelona in September 2023. In both cases, he hung around the far post, waiting for the ball to break his way before scoring against Georgia and Granada.Following a goal in the Supercopa semi-final against Osasuna, where he baited a player before sliding home, the first of Yamal’s signature strikes came in Barcelona’s Copa del Rey exit to Athletic Club in January 2024.Receiving the ball on the wing, he jinked past one tackle before using Ilkay Gundogan’s decoy run to move inside to the edge of the area and bend a shot into the bottom corner.A month later against Mallorca came his other signature finish. As seen below, he collects the pass on the right and drives to the outside before hitting the brakes and dropping his shoulder to cut in and curl in.Yamal added more layers at the start of the 2024-25 season. Below, against Monaco in the Champions League and Osasuna in La Liga, he notices the defence and goalkeeper being wary of the far corner and targets near one.Yamal had scored just once with his right foot up to this point. But in the 77th minute of an October 2024 Clasico at the Bernabeu, he doubled that tally. Ferland Mendy, worried about letting Yamal onto his left foot, gave him too much space on the outside, and the teenager thumped a shot into the roof of Andriy Lunin’s net.From there on, though, Yamal relied heavily on the curler. Overlaps from the right-back — Jules Kounde or Eric Garcia — were a simple, repeatable motion that often did not see them get on the ball but cause seconds of indecision that Yamal feasted on. At times, those runs were accompanied by a midfielder overloading the right, and the quality Barcelona have meant Yamal could not be the focus.His goals against Villarreal, Benfica, at home to Madrid, and away to Espanyol, with the latter two clinching La Liga title, are examples of the goal Yamal cannot stop scoring and opponents cannot stop, period.But the best of the lot came against Inter in the Champions League semi-finals. Down 2-0 early at home, this was the latest example of Yamal taking control of a game. Of his 46 goals across La Liga and the Champions League, 31 have come with his team trailing or level.