They are called Mbappé, Sulemana, Messi, Boufal and every weekend, they humiliate fathers of families in mondiovision.
Their misdeeds make the reputation of the League of talents as much as they despair the defenders of the French championship.
Since the latter do not seem able to stop them on the field, the
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gave five of them the opportunity to name and judge the best dribblers in Ligue 1. Sit down, up to the trial. thrill of the end of the year 2021.
The five jurors (the defenders)
- William Saliba (OM), said El duro, it's also on the nameplate of his big Gamos.
"That's the nickname given to me in the neighborhood because I'm tough on the man."
Dribblers, he knows them but doesn't fear them more than that.
“It happens to happen, but I wasn't killed to the point of sleeping badly.
That puts you in a good mood.
- Brendan Chardonnet (Brest).
26 years old and already his little experience in Ligue 1. He has frequented dribblous since he was very young, even when he rubbed shoulders with Ousmane Dembélé when one was playing in the Brest reserve and the other in the Rennes reserve.
- Alexander Djiku (RC Strasbourg), undoubtedly the one with the best visual memory among the five.
His details were invaluable in the investigation.
- Florent Ogier (Clermont), worthy representative of true football, trained at OL and who is therefore discovering Ligue 1 this season.
He was started 17 times in the first leg and that's good enough to have a lot of stuff to talk about.
- Yunis Abdelhamid (Reims), the prisoner.
Merciless on the ground, a cream outside.
An example ?
It is in the mixed zone, where few players like to drag on, that he lent himself to our game. Class.
The accused
The latest fashionable gang:
The tic & tac du Stade Rennes, aka Jérémy Doku and Kamaldeen Sulemana, are two names that keep coming back to defenders. The first, "a very good L1 dribbler" spontaneously cited by Saliba, his victims retain "his power in the legs" (Chardonnet), And the second? "We knew him less as he comes from another championship and is very young," continues the Brestrois. He had really impressed me with his speed and his hooks. He goes very fast but in addition he masters what he does. "Alexandre Djiku abounds:" he is very explosive, dynamic, and uses body feints a lot ".
Florent Ogier, remembers having attended the masterclass of the Ghanaian from the bench one day when Clermont had taken the tide at Roahzon Park (6-0): “he really made a strong impression on me that day. He has great facilities with the ball, he is invigorating, and he has a very wide palette. It is not the winger who will only give you overflows and crosses ”.
The repeat offender:
Kylian Mbappé. The Parisian striker is on everyone's lips, and we would hardly be surprised to learn that every L1 defender has a photo of him on a mirror to motivate himself every morning. Saliba sees him as "the best dribbler" in the championship (with Ikoné) and prefers his "more direct" style to that of a Neymar. Djiku describes a dribbler "more predictable, even if that doesn't mean it's easy to stop him" and Brendan Chardonnet sees it as a huge source of frustration: "you know what he's going to do, but you can't do nothing. "
Mbappé is inescapable, and he has this rare gift of "ish-ish" over several waltz beats.
Ogier: “When we play him at the Park, he may have sprinted 40m on his call, he feigned a strike and a dribble in the box that I had not anticipated after such an effort.
This is where we see how such a player makes the difference: he keeps all his lucidity even after a great debauchery of energy.
The godfather
: Lionel Messi.
Not many people have played him, and even the few to have defended on him have not always had to sprain to stop him.
Yet his reputation precedes him and he inspires fear.
"You almost have to put him in the top 3 of L1 even if he has not yet made a lot of differences", summarizes Chardonnet.
The accomplices who risk (a little less)
Sofiane Boufal is not the first we think of, probably because Angers is not the sexiest chocolate club in L1, but the Moroccan retains a huge rating among his bodyguards despite an impact statistically limited.
Younès Abdelhamid qualifies him squarely as “best dribbler” of our championship, “capable of doing all possible gestures if we leave him a little space”.
Brendan Chardonnet, for his part, cites Parisian midfielder Marco Verratti and his famous high-risk ball handling: “He has the ability to eliminate with body feints.
It's less spectacular than forwards or fast players, but it's just as effective in midfield and it's a lot riskier on top of that.
He is not afraid of putting his team in danger ”.
Another silky coaxer of our lawns, the Lensois Gaë Kakuta, who impressed Djiku a lot: "he can dribble, make a block come out on a hidden pass ... I remember his checks when he played in Amiens and I in Caen, they were all oriented. He's a real talent. I remember a match where, in front of its surface, he had chained banana and small bridge to launch a counter. We had to try it ”. And succeed.
Were also cited
: Randal Kolo Muani, "slender and lively on his supports" dixit Abdelhamid, Houssem Aouar and his famous double trigger overflow on the left side - "it is really easy in the elimination" (Ogier), Wissem Ben Yedder and his body game ("He has everything you need in the surface", Ogier Always), Lucas Paqueta, "apparently nonchalant but very strong on the first steps" (Abdelhamid) and even the late Hatem Ben Arfa, whose past exploits still print the retinas: "the season when he is in Nice, he did what he wanted and especially from anywhere, anywhere, remembers Djiku, it was at the most destabilizing." Neymar too, obviously, but his name has often been forgotten, a sign that his injuries and recent one-on-one struggles make him more of a phantom threat than a real danger.
Interpellation techniques
Our interlocutors assure that they do not have nightmares the night before their meeting with the best gamblers in our regions, but they still sometimes have a little fix.
“Before the match against PSG this summer, we talked about Messi in the locker room, in training, in the showers, everywhere!
laughs Djuku.
We didn't know if he was going to play and we wondered how to defend on him.
In the end, it was just presented ”.
In Reims, the staff prepares each week "a specific video on the offensive players before the matches, so we are all warned", explains Abdelhamid. "The job of the analysts is super important", confirms Ogier, they are the ones who make it possible to target the profiles in front and their dribbling habits ". Next ? Then God will recognize His own. "When you come across a great dribbler, you know that you will have to defend two to help the teammate with the marking", testifies Saliba, "often the central defender who comes out to help his side" (Ogier).
For everyone, the approach is first and foremost a matter of feelings: "what we are taught as defenders is to stick to these players to prevent them from picking up speed," explains Chardonnet.
But we adapt during the matches.
When we play against OM and Ünder comes in at the end on the right side, we know he will try to get back on his best footing.
So we warn the defender concerned (Jean-Kevin Duverne) and we see what we can do ”.
The fashion being with the inverted feet - a left-hander on the right and a right-hander on the left - the pure overflow wingers are less and less numerous.
But dribblers can always start from both sides ...
20-minute requisitions
He has already taken life for a long time in L1, but how can Mbappé escape a new conviction for repeated and voluntary robberies on all the defenses of the championship?
Fortunately for him, Kyky "acceleration, comma, small bridge, knock" has already planned to escape Fleury in June.
Otherwise we will make a group prize for the two accomplices Rennais Doku and Sulemana, with a coercive removal measure: ban on approaching an elite stadium within 500 meters on weekends.
Others ?
A simple reminder to the law for the moment, but watch out for justice.
Especially you, Mr. Boufal.
As for you, Mr. Messi, your legendary prowess has not escaped us.
A conviction for tax evasion came quickly, look at Al Capone.
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