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Moffi in all the right ways
While Lorient defended for almost the entire game with these five defenders against the Monegasque waves, the light came from Nigerian Terrem Moffi.
He is the attacker who caused the penalty for the premises and he himself transformed (31st).
He also confirms his status as an executioner against the Monegasques with his fourth achievement in three games against ASM.
Apart from the center-shot of Le Goff who almost surprised everyone before failing on the crossbar, he is the author of the only Lorient breakthrough in the second half but his center did not find a taker (36th).
Mendes, strong defensive leader
He was the most active Lorient with an incalculable number of balls cleared from the head or the foot in an acrobatic way.
His chisel in the box, in addition to being spectacular, had the merit of depriving Boadu of a face to face with Paul Nardi.
Despite his card collected at the start of the second period (52nd), the defender interposed in all attempts at Monegasque combinations.
His big smile when he got up from an involuntary high foot on the part of Volland at the end of the match (88th) shows the abnegation shown by the ex-Lavalois as well as all his defense to snatch their first home victory against Monaco in 7 years.
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Monaco without solutions
With two points taken in two matches, the Monegasques did not start their race for the title or even the podium in Ligue 1 in an ideal way. As against Nantes (1-1), Niko Kovac's men struggled a lot against a low block. who lined up five defenders to counter the offensive contribution of the Monegasque pistons. Perhaps still exhausted by their qualifying return match for the play-offs against Prague (3-1), the teammates of captain Axel Disasi have long appeared without solutions against a well-grouped Lorient defense. Without a real offensive detonator, the Monegasques persisted in increasing the number of races in the corridors and centers without much success against the men of Pélissié prepared for this exercise. It was not until thehour of play and the return of Golovine and Ben Yedder to see a little variety in the offensive animation of the last 3rd in Ligue 1.
Frustrating and frustrated boadu
While his coach was delighted with the arrival of the Dutchman from Alkmaar (17 million euros), the young n ° 9 is struggling to restore the confidence that his coach gives him at the start of the season.
Recruited for his profile of attacker more incisive and finisher compared to the profile of second striker of Volland and Ben Yedder, Myron Boadu missed everything this Friday night or almost.
If these calls and his movements away from the ball are interesting, his controls and his finish are still cruelly lacking in realism as on this ball recovered
in extremis
by Mendes on the nose and beard of the young striker who had managed to take the ball well (48th). Two games in a first season in a foreign league are obviously far too few to make a first judgment on the Dutchman, but beware of the crisis of confidence of the young striker who is already important in Kovac's mandatory rotation for Europe and championship matches.