The particularly disappointing summer signing at Ajax has injected some much-needed confidence into the Georgian national team. In a practice match against modest Thailand, the attacker, who came over from FC Metz, produced a flawless hat-trick before half time and even scored a fourth goal in the second half.
Last season, Mikautadze was of great value to Metz, which was promoted to the highest level in France as number two in the Ligue 2, partly thanks to 23 league goals from the Georgian. Sven Mislintat, then director of football affairs at Ajax, did not hesitate to spend sixteen million euros to bring the attacker to the Johan Cruijff ArenA. After three games, Mikautadze is still waiting for his first Amsterdam goal and the criticisms from Andy van der Meijde and Kees Kwakman, among others, are not gentle.
Mikautadze hoped to forget his worries for a while with the national team, and he certainly succeeded on Thursday evening. Against Thailand, number 112 in the FIFA rankings, he scored in the 24th, 37th and 41st minutes, scoring a genuine hat-trick and accounting for half of the total of six Georgian goals in the first act. took. Ten minutes after the break it was scored again: Mikautadze also scored from the penalty spot for the 7-0, making him the very first Georgian ever to score four times in an international match. It would also remain with those four goals: immediately after his penalty, national coach Willy Sagnol took the Ajax player to the side; Napoli star player Kvicha Kvaratskhelia was his replacement.
2023-10-12 17:07:16
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