Despite his status as a substitute at Paris Saint-Germain, Randal Kolo Muani will end the year as the top scorer for the France team. And quite far away.
Sacred paradox. You can therefore be relegated very far in the hierarchy among attackers within your club, and continue to perform well in the selection with the second best nation in the Fifa ranking. Like Olivier Giroud a few years ago, Randal Kolo Muani maintained this contradiction throughout the year.
Better yet, Kolo Muani will end 2024 as top scorer for the France team. With his 6 goals, he is ahead of “against his camp”, who scored for the Blues three times, while Bradley Barcola, Kylian Mbappé and Adrien Rabiot each struck twice. Among the lot, there is notably a goal in the semi-final of the Euro against Spain (1-2), and we do not count the decisive goal of the Blues in the round of 16 against Belgium (1-0) , which was awarded to its best rival, CSC.
Kolo Muani, useful and combative, but…
So goes Randal Kolo Muani, downgraded to Paris Saint-Germain, practically undesirable for Luis Enrique, but still useful and decisive in the French team. However, we will not go so far as to say that the former Nantes player is sparkling with the Blues, because his match in Italy on Sunday evening was quite difficult, despite the great victory for Didier Deschamps' men. The daily La Repubblica highlighted it in its notes:
“PSG must have seen something in him to pay him 100M. Yes, ok: but what? »
In a somewhat new system, where he played alongside Marcus Thuram, with the mission of occupying the right flank of the attack, Kolo Muani struggled to make a difference. The Team gave it a score of 3/10, and the following comment: “His desire is not in question, his propensity to do things well more. The Parisian did not have many balls to negotiate and he did not know what to do with them, tightly held by Dimarco. »
But the native of Bondy was defended by Claude Puel, who however made a similar observation regarding him: “I found (Randal) Kolo Muani not too bad. He really has something physically but must progress technically and accurately. » Luis Enrique must undoubtedly share this opinion…
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