Premier League: baptism complicated with Fulham for Areola, loaned by PSG

He is not guilty on any of the goals conceded by his team this Saturday.

But Alphonse Areola still spent a bitter afternoon for his first in the Premier League, in a match of the second day against Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds (4-3).

Aligned in front of a four-way defense for the first time in the Championship during this duel between promoted, the French international, loaned one season by PSG (with option to buy), took four "pawns": two heavy strikes under his barre (4th, 57th), a penalty (41st) and a well-placed flat foot (50th).

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Last season, the 27-year-old goalkeeper was loaned to Real Madrid as number 2. If he had participated in nine games in all competitions under Zinedine Zidane, the Parisian by birth could not be satisfied with a replacement status, he who aims to find the France team for the Euro, postponed to the summer of 2021.

He joined Fulham as number 1, and was not in the eleven who had already lost on his lawn against Arsenal (0-3), last Saturday during the first day of the Championship.