Is Lamine Yamal vs. Jude Bellingham soccer's new must-watch rivalry?

TL;DR

Lamine Yamal and Jude Bellingham are emerging as a new must-watch rivalry in soccer. Their ongoing feud is generating significant interest among fans and analysts.

Key points

Lamine Yamal and Jude Bellingham are emerging soccer stars
Their rivalry is generating significant fan interest
The feud is compared to historic rivalries in soccer

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Is Lamine Yamal vs. Jude Bellingham soccer's new must-watch rivalry?

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, step aside.

A new soccer rivalry is here and heated.

Lamine Yamal and Jude Bellingham are the latest soccer stars to have an ongoing feud.

On Monday, May 11, a day after Yamal's FC Barcelona beat Bellingham's Real Madrid in El Clásico to clinch the La Liga championship, the Spanish superstar posted an Instagram story with a photo of himself cheering from the sidelines of the match and the caption, "talk is cheap" with a series of crying emojis.

The caption seems to be mocking the English midfielder's post from when Real Madrid won the rivalry match over Barcelona back in October.

"Talk is cheap. HALA MADRID SIEMPRE!!!" Bellingham wrote with a white heart under an Instagram gallery of photos from the match.

Yamal also reiterated the statement during Barça's championship parade while giving a quick comment to Jijantes FC.

"Talk is very cheap," he said in Spanish with a laugh.

A recent World Cup ad from adidas featured both Yamal and Bellingham and showed the tension between the two. In the spot, the Three Lions midfielder is sitting in the back of a car driven by Timothée Chalamet. The actor is frantically trying to put together a squad to take on a local team when Yamal opens the door and gets into the car while saying, "Vámonos." Bellingham responds in annoyance with a sigh.