The sports daily L’Equipe reserved an article this Wednesday, January 22, 2025 for the Moroccan international Achraf Hakimi.
The newspaper looks back on this first half of the stratospheric season for the protégé of coach Luis Enrique. “Rarely in the history of PSG, has a right-back been as influential in the game as Achraf Hakim”, immediately underlines the French media.
The Team then carries out a detailed analysis on the Moroccan’s major assets (Speed, morphology and volume of races). In terms of speed, the daily recalls that Hakimi is the second fastest player in the Champions League this season (top speed at 36.5 km/h), behind Erling Haaland (36.6 km/h) and ahead of Kylian Mbappé (35.7km/h). In terms of morphology, the Team recalls that Hakimi’s time at Inter Milan transformed the player on a physical level.
For Hervé Renard, the former coach of the Atlas Lions: “Hakimi has the same speed as the attackers, which makes him an exceptional athlete.” Romain Saiss, his ex-teammate in the Moroccan defense line, indicates for his part that Hakimi has confidence in his speed: “At the beginning, I told him to pay attention to his high positioning, He knew, that with this speed, in any case, he could make up for the blows.”
-L’Equipe indicates that Hakimi’s volume of play is very high (10.5 km covered on average) and an ability to deliver accelerations even in stoppage time in the matches he plays. With a successful pass rate of 82% on average, Hakimi has 7 assists and 4 goals this season in all competitions, making him a key and essential element of PSG.
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