Yvann Maçon celebrates his superb first goal in Ligue 1, scored last Sunday in Nantes.

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  • Completely unknown to the general public when he arrived last January in Saint-Etienne, Yvann Maçon has become the revelation of the surprising leader of Ligue 1.

  • Converted left side by Claude Puel, the 21-year-old Guadeloupe has just made his first decisive pass in the professional world in Marseille (0-2) then his first goal in Nantes on Sunday (2-2).

  • Before the ASSE-Rennes meeting on Saturday (5 p.m.),

    20 Minutes looks

    back on the atypical course of this versatile player trained as a relay medium, very far from training centers.

Midfielder in N3 (5th division), right side in National, right winger in the final of the Coupe de France against PSG (0-1) and left side since the start of the season in L1.

In two years, Yvann Maçon has chained with disconcerting ease four posts and two consecutive jumps of two divisions, from the Dunkirk reserve to ASSE.

Decisive passer of his "bad foot" at the Vélodrome stadium (0-2) then author of a lightning strike for his first goal for the pros in Nantes (2-2), the 21-year-old comes out of a dream week .

Before Sainté-Rennes on Saturday (5 p.m.),

20 Minutes

looks at its course, very far from the training centers.

🅰️ A decisive pass on Thursday


⚽️ A (superb) goal on Sunday


titre A second man of the match title on Monday



After #FCNASSE and his crazy week, Yvann # Mason 🥇 once again offers you his signed jersey 👇

- AS Saint-Étienne (@ASSEofficiel) September 21, 2020

“Last October, we presented Claude Puel with a video montage of Yvann Maçon.

The coach validated his profile, which we liked for his power, his explosiveness and his ability to repeat the efforts ", explains the former head of the Greens recruitment unit David Wantier, for whom this transfer reminds that of Kévin Malcuit ( ex-side of Niort in L2) five years earlier.

For only 350,000 euros, ASSE therefore enlists in the winter transfer window, via a contract until 2023, the one who has just delivered two assists for his first full half-season in the National, in a Dunkirk group claiming to the League 2.

"We did not expect such a quick transfer for him"

In May 2017, the Guadeloupe, however, signed only a simple amateur license after a successful detection in the North, from Castelnau-Le Crès (Hérault).

“In this test match, he scored with a 25m strike in the top corner, a bit like the one in Nantes, remembers Jean-Charles Delgrange, his reserve team coach in Dunkirk (N3) from 2017 to 2019 At 18, he already had great potential as a midfielder.

But when we see the rest for him, we say to ourselves that it is the beauty of football.

“And this especially since he only had two appearances in the National during his first two seasons in the North.

"Yvann was a bit lost because he had been replaced right side in training with the first team, while evolving in the middle of the weekend with the reserve, confides his friend and ex-teammate Alexis Calant, now in La Louvière (3rd Belgian division).

In this new position, he was sometimes a little nervous and he conceded penalties on placement errors.

But he broke everything as a right-back from the start of the 2018-2019 season.

We did not expect such a quick transfer for him.

"

"He only has the good sides of the 'foufou' player" "

Because everything accelerated suddenly for Yvann Maçon, like the raids of this formidable counter-attacker during his good half-season on the right wing of the Marcel-Tribut stadium.

According to Benjamin Rytlewski, assistant coach of the USLD, his replacement in the field was decisive for the takeoff of his career.

Evolving against the sideline has undoubtedly framed.

In the middle, he had a game that was perhaps too generous.

There was always some kind of madness in him.

By suddenly becoming a defender with us, he made mistakes but the objective was to keep his freshness.

We see that today, he only has the good sides of the “foufou” player, he was channeled by Claude Puel and his defensive involvement with Saint-Etienne impresses me.

"

Forgotten the small bridges more than daring attempted in his own area (47 seconds on the video below), he is ready to win in Ligue 1 with a rigorous coach.

Recruited from January 31 "especially in order to be ready from the start of the following season", as David Wantier specifies, Yvann Maçon was only allowed two complicated matches in the top flight before confinement (1 -0 in Montpellier and 3-2 in Brest).

Here is one of the very beautiful revelations of the National.

Yvan Macon (98), right side of @usldunkerque.

A formidable striker with enormous downforce and good acceleration but also defensive qualities.

A player who will certainly be higher next season.

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- The Talent Seeker (@ LeChercheurDT2) November 3, 2019

"We were all shocked to see him right midfielder against PSG"

Since the resumption of football in France, Saint-Etienne supporters have discovered a completely different player, tenured over the first four days of the championship at yet another new left-back position.

Twirling in "false foot", especially in Marseille, it symbolizes the exciting start to the season of this green youth, leader of Ligue 1. Two months earlier, the Guadeloupe was even able to discover the Stade de France during the final of the Coupe de France against PSG (0-1), again to everyone's surprise.

“We were in training at Le Touquet that day with the USLD and we were all shocked to see him established as a right eccentric midfielder, smiles Alexis Calant.

From the 2nd minute of play, it made us laugh to see him put a box to Neymar and take a yellow card.

When you think about it, it really is a rise of madness.

"

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