Lamine Yamal vs Ousmane Dembélé: Updated Ballon d’Or odds revealed | OneFootball

An updated round of odds for the next Ballon d’Or award have on Tuesday come to the fore online.

And they will no doubt come as altogether concerning reading for those of a Barcelona persuasion.

This comes amid confirmation that Lamine Yamal has fallen some way off frontrunner Ousmane Dembélé in the race for the prize.

Wide-man Lamine’s name has been heavily pushed in the Ballon d’Or debate once more over the last couple of days.

This comes after Paris Saint-Germain’s heavy defeat in the final of the Club World Cup saw the Barca faithful kickstart a fresh campaign for their young attacker to beat out chief ‘Golden Ball’ competitor Ousmane Dembélé.

As alluded to above, however, if the latest odds doing the rounds online are anything to go by, then Dembélé’s CWC defeat does not appear to have negatively affected his candidacy at all.

In fact, as revealed by Actu Foot, citing collective bookmaker odds, the France international is considered as being in with an 83% chance of lifting the Ballon d’Or this September.

The odds (non-cumulative) do place Lamine in the runners-up spot, but with just a 20% chance of being named world football’s best player:

Conor Laird – GSFN