Seeing the Bayern Munich winger moping often on the substitutes' bench, at the Blues, can be seen as a huge mess.

But it shows above all how fierce the competition is in the French team, where the places in attack are worth more than elsewhere.

At the Parc des Princes, his former garden that he left in 2014, the 25-year-old will-o'-the-wisp came out of his box with the energy of someone who has things to show Didier Deschamps, one year before the Cup of the world in Qatar for which the French qualified on Saturday.

The coach had chosen to offer him a chance to shine on the right wing, in a role of "piston" usually reserved for his partner Bayern, Benjamin Pavard, in the now preferential system of the Tricolores to three central defenders.

He grabbed the outstretched hand, made talk about the power of his acceleration, the finesse of his dribbling, the precision of his centers and he regaled the 45,550 spectators massed in the stadium of Paris SG, his training club.

"Provocation"

They saw him, jostled, get up and address a cross for the head of Karim Benzema (5th), but also serve Kylian Mbappé with a subtle ladle (24th) and, above all, make his vis-à-vis dizzy. screw (20th, 41st, 44th, 63rd, 68th) countless times, triggering the clamor of the Parisian enclosure.

"The basis of my game will always be provocation but now I alternate a lot more trying to be also at the finish, also in the last pass", said the former player of Juventus Turin before the Euro.

Assists, precisely, Coman delivered two for Mbappé, credited on Saturday with the first quadruple of his career with the Blues.

On the 2-0, the Bavarian sprinted from the French half by infiltrating between two opponents, receiving a superb deep ball transmitted by Jules Koundé.

He pushed the leather to erase the goalkeeper, out of his area, before sending a cross for Mbappé at the penalty point (12th).

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Still served by Koundé, while he had remained glued to the sideline, Coman again offered a caviar to Mbappé with a perfectly balanced center for the head of the Parisian (32nd).

Under the cheers

By his liveliness and efficiency, the winner of the 2020 Champions League scored points on the road to Qatar, he who had missed the World Cup three years ago on injury, and the Nations League last month after a slight heart operation.

The weak adversity represented by Kazakhstan, 125th nation in the Fifa rankings, however lent itself more to the offensive profile of the winger than to that of Pavard, defender by training and "piston" with not always well-oiled mechanics.

Forward Kingsley Coman shoots on goal despite the return of Kazakh defender Alexsandr Marochkin, during the 2022 World Cup qualifiers in Qatar, November 13, 2021 at Parc des Princes in Paris FRANCK FIFE AFP

If Coman will have to show the same level against a more robust team, he has fully taken advantage of his second international tenure (after Ukraine-France at the beginning of September) of the year 2021, he who does not often have the honors of the Marseillaise since the lawn.

The one sung at the kickoff, concluded a cappella by the crowd of the Park, will probably remain as a strong memory for the kid from Paris, in full light for his 35th selection and released to the cheers a quarter of an hour from the end. Match.

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