[Tactique] Akor Adams, alone in the world

Akor Adams, like the Pailladin collective, is going through a very dark passage in Hérault. If he never seems to cheat on the field, the connection with his partners seems blurred.

What do the figures say? In a ranking of ten matches taking into account the players who touched the fewest balls, according to Ligue1Stat on X, Akor Adams was the player who touched the fewest balls four times. What stands out from this table is that usually, it is the goalkeepers who have this record. Guillaume Restes, Steve Mandanda and Lucas Perri are also in this ranking. Akor Adams was rarely found against Rennes (20 balls touched), Nantes (20), Toulouse (20) and Auxerre (21). They nevertheless point out that despite this, he has managed to score three goals since the start of the season.

But then, where does the problem come from? Akor Adams likes space as we discovered during his first match in the MHSC jersey against Le Havre last season where he found the net twice. But he often makes calls that are too vertical which put him in an offside position. Furthermore, his calls are not always well coordinated with the ball carrier. We can also note that when he is found in the game, for support play, he can be out of time and cause the team to waste time and thus annihilate an action. Are its partners, taking all this into account, less able to then seek it out, preferring other solutions? It's a possibility.

Akor Adams is also a finisher who must be in the box receiving crosses. However, the MHSC is becoming less and less capable of this: the wingers lack inspiration and the full-backs have a lot of waste in this area, the Nigerian striker finds it difficult to be touched to finish the actions. Finally the MHSC is undergoing a lot this season, taking on water defensively and therefore Akor Adams' work also often boils down to doing the windshield wiper between the opposing centrals to prevent restarts and going down to help his partners in the defensive sector .

In short, it is a set of characteristics that make the pailladin number eight struggling this season. By individual shortcomings, by his understanding with his teammates but also in view of the situation of the club which is struggling during the meetings, he is not put in the best position to be a major player in the pailladin game.

Let's hope that for the rest of the season, Jean Louis Gasset will find a better formula to align him with players capable of supporting him. La Paillade will greatly need it in its maintenance mission when the first supporters are hoping for the first tenure of Junior Ndiaye (19 years old) on the attacking front.