The whistles from the Vélodrome, he could have expected it. Especially since he is not the only player labeled “PSG” in this selection to have tasted it this Tuesday, including those who were not born in Bondy like him. It is therefore not this bronca which accompanied him when he left after 83 minutes of work that he will remember. No, from this strange French victory against the Chilean veterans (3-2), Randal Kolo Muani will remember that it is with this kind of performance that he will be able to apply next June for a place on the bus of the 23 happy people who will drive Didier Deschamps heading to Germany. And in the season he is going through in the capital, that would almost be a feat.
The freshness advantage
Perceived as a supersub at PSG (17 starts in 31 matches), he replaced his club teammate Ousmane Dembélé on the right wing of the France team against Germany, before taking his place in the starting lineup for this second match of the international sequence. Above all, he was one of the rare French players to shine during this friendly meeting. Calls from deep, dribbling to slip into the penalty area, generosity in the efforts and to top it all off: a nice headed goal with a trigger Christianesque to go in front and a festival of dribbling before sending Olivier Giroud to his 57th goal.
Enough to validate in the mind of Didier Deschamps this joker role that he had already assumed at the World Cup, he was called up at the last minute to compensate for Christopher Nkunku’s injury. “Kolo has his freshness and his abilities going for him. There is also a nice headed goal, it’s goodaffirmed the coach by way of debriefing. I’m happy for him, he did everything right. » RKM does the job in Paris, already scoring nine goals. For some, this is not enough to justify a transfer of 95 million euros. At the time when the name of Bradley Barcola began to circulate for an experience with the A’s, where the return from injury Christopher Nkunku is also awaited with curiosity, this is what we call a sense of timing.
Symptomatic of the Blues problem
Unfortunately for him, the joker often has two faces. And despite the good score, it also gave (new) insight into its limitations. His loss of the ball on the Chilean score reduction, just before his replacement by Moussa Diaby, is a glaring example. Worse, the evil that is gnawing at the 25-year-old boy is also more or less that which the French team felt during this gathering. If the one who floats is a desperado who plays his last card, if the one who gives the offensive impetus is also one of the players with the least confidence on the ball, it is because something is not right with these Blues.
By talking with him about his positioning, we were able to put him in the best possible position.
Didier Deschamps about RKM
In a grueling season with high final stakes, everything is uncertainty. Nothing guaranteed Randal to have as much credit as in November, when he was already a scorer with the Blues in a suffocating draw conceded in Greece. However, erosion has no hold on Didier Deschamps, who prefers to count his soldiers rather than eliminate them. « Potential is one thing, confidence is also essentialsaid the boss of the Blues.By talking with him about his positioning, we were able to put him in the best possible position. This doesn’t only apply to him, but players are used to doing things in their clubs, and in the selection, you have to change quickly. Since November, the French team has been on hold…” We will see if the subliminal message to Luis Enrique gets through, but in the meantime, Randal Kolo Muani must only wait for one thing: that this parenthesis can quickly reopen.
Blues: one march and it fixes it?
2024-03-27 00:00:36
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