Once is not custom, Sunday evening, at the Parc des Princes, "the machine of Bondy" was not flanked by a number 7 on the back or a PSG badge on the heart.
For his 100th match in Ligue 1, Kylian Mbappé was stolen the spotlight by another kid from Bondy, the shy Randal Kolo Muani.
Also born in December 1998, fifteen days before the world champion, the international hope of Nantes was the man of the match.
Failing to have obtained a penalty in the first period on a charge from Presnel Kimpembe, the Nantes striker turned the match up after the locker room by equalizing and then offering the winning goal to Moses Simon and FC Nantes.
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Shining in the Park is not trivial for this suburban kid, born in Bondy, therefore, but who grew up, ball at his feet, in Villepinte, Tremblay then Torcy.
“I remember that I came here to watch games when I was young, he confided Sunday night after the game.
It's always nice to do this kind of service here.
"
The modest victory
Randal Kolo Muani joined the Nantes training center in 2015 and took his time to mature.
He had to wait until November 1, 2018 to play his first Ligue 1 match. It was against Saint-Etienne and under the orders of Vahid Halilhodzic.
And the striker must go into exile in the National, at US Boulogne, during the 2018-2019 season to get tough.
And finally to win in Nantes.
So this Sunday evening, the young scorer, summoned by Sylvain Ripoll among the hopes in October 2020 for the qualifying matches for Euro 2021, savor the compliments, like fuel to move forward.
It is suggested to him that he was the man of this unexpected victory against barley PSG.
He is almost embarrassed.
“I was very efficient, I am aware that I helped the team to take the three points, answers the Nantais.
But this is only one step in the race.
There are still many more.
»Is he surprised by this success?
How does he explain it?
"We believed in it, quite simply," Kolo Muani answers naturally.
We came here to get points.
We respected the coach's instructions and it smiled on us.
We are happy to leave with the three points.
"
He prefers to forget the I, to think of the collective.
The basis to explain the victory of the evening, the rebound of a team long lost this season.
"Yes, it's true, we realized quite late that we were in a delicate position," he admits.
But there, I think, we saw that we had a strong mentality, that we were a tight-knit team.
We can go and seek maintenance.
We didn't come here to be spectators, but to be part of the match.
"
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This first Nantes success since 1997, "it may be the trigger we were waiting for, it must be the trigger for what should lead us to maintain it".
If Randal Kolo Muani ensures that there was a penalty in the first half on the charge of Presnel Kimpembe who "does not play the ball", he does not want to speak of a miracle: "No, it is neither an achievement nor a miracle.
We came to take three points, at worst one point.
It is not a miracle that we won.
Just the nice shot of Bondy's other talent.
