It will be one of the central elements of this double-duel Call 1-Call 2, in the dam between Toulouse and Nantes. Thursday (8:45 p.m.) and Sunday (6 p.m.), the two clubs will compete for a place in the elite. The TFC arrives launched like a hornet, and will try to make the Canaries see red. But the FCN, certainly beaten by Montpellier (1-2) on the last day of Ligue 1, remained on a good dynamic. At the heart of the coming confrontation, an opposition will be to follow even more than the others, between players who have worn their training in recent weeks, magicians of this game. Amine Adli and Manu Koné for the TFC, Blas and Louza for the FCN will have the fate of their team between their feet. So Thursday, if a duo has more the ball than its counterpart, the fact will not be far from giving a good indication of the winner of the match.
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He was simply voted best player in Ligue 2, at age 21, and after only 4 L1 games last year. Yes, Amine Judicial, left-handed just like Blas and Louza, is of the feline race, small, fast, ultra-mobile, and not bothered for two cents with the ball. The pitchoun, both playmaker and second striker, will have a lot to do to extricate himself from the marking he should undergo Thursday night. But his season and his stats (8 goals, 7 assists) plead for him, as Patrice Garande, his coach, pleads praise when he mentions the jewel to the microphones of beIn Sports. « He’s a golden kid, it exudes the joy of living. He has everything you need to play in Ligue 1 and maybe even more. He also knows that he still has steps to take. For a coach, it is a pleasure to have it. He’s had a great season and I think he’s going to do us good in the last two games ».
There was a particular journalist at a post-match press conference tonight in Toulouse: Amine Adli indeed wanted to know more about the possible Brazilian origins of @kone_manu. pic.twitter.com/EUaT6tJOwc
– Hugo (@HugoGirard_) May 21, 2021
Adli-Koné, the pitchoun burst
The joy of living, the technique, and an exceptional relationship on and off the field with Manu Koné, the formidable box to box environment of TFC. On the ground, the two youngsters lie with their eyes closed, as the incredible midfield goal in Le Havre proved it last month. In a very different profile, more physical, inevitably more remote on the ground, Koné completes a terrible exercise, in parts where all the impact and the ease to go forward of the number 8 splashed the League 2. The next season, the 20-year-old will try to win in Germany, following his transfer to the French colony of Mönchengladbach (Pléa, Thuram). There is no doubt that the right-hander’s big ball strike will help him find a place in the kingdom of Kartoffelsalat and potatoes from outside the area.
Nantes-Toulouse, the reign of left-handers
Opposed to the duo of Toulouse pitchouns, Ludovic Blas and Imran Louza, two delicious left feet, will have the respondent. In a reminiscent of the Nantes-style game of the great FCN years, and sometimes in a technically fair workforce, the quality of the two leaders bursts the screen. Louza like Blas have long been moved from one position to another in the midfield. It is now on the right side that the number 10 generation Mbappé (Blas) flourishes under the orders of Antoine Kombouaré. Which also made Louza, trained in Nantes, a fundamental piece of his chessboard. Sometimes leader, sometimes right winger before that, the young man of 22 years is clearly positioned in the center of the field by Kanak. With Chirivella, the pair are interesting, and Louza does not hesitate to take the matches on his own, when Ludovic Blas is him the detonator of the Canaries, by his assists and his goals. A statute told by Kombouaré in West France.
« For me, he’s an important player in the squad. I prefer it where it is effective. In Angers, he was decisive on the side. It is a balance to be found. He has a big volume of play, is able to defend, he is mentally strong and has a very good left foot. The Nantes coach continues on Louza: On what we see, it is effective. He is at the origin of all the goals. It’s good ! The hardest thing for him, and this is valid for all top athletes, is to be consistent in performance. This is what is expected of him. He knows it because he’s a talented boy. Today, he has taken a step forward and is showing a lot of maturity. “For Louza, Blas, Manu Koné or Amine Adli, these are two other stages that arrive to end the season. And get a place in Ligue 1.
Crédit photo : FEP Panoramic / Imago.
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