For a few weeks at the start of the current decade, Raymond Domenech had Alban Lafont under his command at FC Nantes. He doesn't have lasting memories of it.
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closing match of the tenth day of Ligue 1Alban Lafont was not flawless in the goals for FC Nantes, against Olympique de Marseille. In particular on the second Marseille achievement, signed Mason Greenwood, where he found himself too short due to poor placement.
Raymond Domenech rubbed shoulders with the 25-year-old goalkeeper when he was coach of the Canaries, between December 26, 2020 and February 11, 2021. At the time, the native of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) was on loan from Fiorentina. And even if the former coach of the France team started him, he hardly appreciated his style of play.
Lafon, the “Rantanplan” of goalkeepers
“He’s always been like that, he remembered in The evening teamafter the meeting. He doesn't dive, he falls. He looks like a goalie from 1920, diving sideways. Great times? If he has balloons high up, yes he will look for them. But on the ground, on target… He is still in difficulty. I saw him for a month and a half when I was in Nantes, we conceded a few goals like that. 25 meters, balls rolling in the corners and too short, Rantanplan every time. »
In February 2022, Alban Lafont had nevertheless obtained the maximum score of 10/10 in the daily newspaper The Team after the victory of FC Nantes against Paris-Saint-Germain (3-1). He was then only the third goalkeeper to obtain such a rating in the history of the sports daily.
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