Anelka wants au secours de Kolo Muani

This Tuesday evening, PSG travels to Arsenal and for a certain Nicolas Anelka, this match is special. Revealed by PSG but taken to the highest level by the Gunners, Anelka nevertheless confides his slight preference for the Parisian club where he was “trained”. In the columns of Le Parisien, the former international center forward sees reasons to be positive for Luis Enrique’s team. “I am optimistic because, even if Kylian (Mbappé) left (to Real Madrid), PSG is playing really very well. But it’s this big match at Arsenal that will tell us something. Paris plays as a team and everyone makes the effort. I’m not saying that wasn’t the case last year, but I feel a greater collective strength. The best proof is that the coach rotates his squad and we don’t see any difference. There is no dependence on this or that player. It’s very interesting. »

Too harsh criticism?

Nicolas Anelka, a good connoisseur of the number nine position, also shows comforting support for Randal Kolo Muani. While the striker does not seem to have the confidence of Luis Enrique to play at the forefront of the attack, Anelka believes that the criticism against him is too harsh. “Paris does not have an Erling Haaland. Randal Kolo Muani, for example, has a profile where he can also play on the wings. I also find that we are being quite harsh and quite unfair with him. He is a player full of qualities. He produces good matches. Afterwards, I can’t identify his preferred position. As we rarely hear him, I don’t know in what role he wants to evolve. In Germany he was very good. But he plays in a club where there have been so many great attackers that the expectation around him is necessarily very tough,” says Anelka.