In the After Foot, Sunday evening, after the victory (3-1) of PSG against OL, Daniel Riolo and Florent Gautreau made rave remarks about the Moroccan right side Achraf Hakimi, who has performed very well from the start of the season.
This season, PSG is more dependent than ever on its detonator Achraf Hakimi, whose complicity with Ousmane Dembélé is wreaking havoc. But even when the latter looks pale or is suspended, the Parisian game clearly leans to the right. Hyper active offensively, with high-intensity runs that he is able to reproduce throughout a match, to offer a solution to a partner or initiate Parisian counter-pressing, the Moroccan full-back has extended his growing influence on the Parisian game under the orders of Luis Enrique. Inhabited by a constant desire to accelerate, to propose solutions, to make differences, Hakimi is poison for opposing defenses. And a full-back invested on the defensive level, even if he can also forget himself defensively, experience waste in his game and lose a certain number of balls in the same match.
Gautreau: “A really great start to the season”
“You can’t do without it today,” said Daniel Riolo in the After, Sunday evening. He's the one who makes you different, more than the others. “He's the player above in Paris. In an important match, if you're missing one, he's the one who shouldn't be missed in Paris. We haven't completely dominated the match yet, but I I still saw a great performance from PSG this evening and once again it's been a long time since we've seen them good like that, over so many sequences, with the ball going fast, a desire to strike, it's very long time there, we saw the good match, and we once again saw that Hakimi was the leader of this team.” Convinced that the Moroccan full-back is an “excellent player”, Florent Gautreau judges his first part of the season “exceptional”, “especially physically”. “He’s having a really great start to the season, and he’s played a lot.”
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Indisputable holder in the right lane, even if the role assigned to him in Luis Enrique's eleven leads him to sometimes position himself more inside the game, Hakimi has only missed two matches, in all competitions, in Reims (1-1) and against Strasbourg (he remained on the bench). With 1,659 games on the clock, he is the most used player in the PSG squad by Luis Enrique since the start of the season, just ahead of Willian Pacho.
