Before Monaco – Bruges – Moussa Sylla, hope in despair – UEFA Champions League 2018-2019 – Football



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In an ocean of marasmus, the slightest wave of freshness is easily remarkable. In full depression despite the arrival of Thierry Henry on the bench, AS Monaco had only one satisfaction to draw from his dirty past: the emergence of new faces. With in first place that of a kid of 18 years. A kid that the Monegasque club did not even have to buy for gold.

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When a young fast attacker arrives in the first Monegasque team, it is obviously a matter of watching him closely. Mbappé jurisprudence obliges. Especially when it is signal input. After two in-play against Guingamp and Amiens, Moussa Sylla had slipped the screen late last season against Caen (2-1) in Ligue 1. Two fox goals surfaces for a player who moves away from profile daddy scorers, used to hunt in the sixteen meters. With his legs, Sylla is above all a space player.

Of course, when the boss on board is called Thierry Henry, one of the first specimens to have moved away from the surface to get there launched, it sticks. It was finally Titi who best described the young man after the first leg against Brugge (1-1): "I based myself on what I have seen since I arrived. The three-four actions that we have in Strasbourg, the penalty we get, are his calls that create them. It is he who creates the calls of ball, we see what the little one is giving us, he evolves and brings what he has to bring".

At the finish, it's not that yet …

It was against the Belgian club that AS Monaco version Henry delivered his best match. It was also during this match that Sylla finally opened his meter this season with a deep call punctuated by a cross shot in the small opposite net. A gesture still too rare for him. This season, he took advantage of the wounds of Stevan Jovetic and Radamel Falcao to settle down and put the competition of Pietro Pellegri or Willem Geubbels behind him. The balance sheet? Ten matches (eight starts) for a single small goal.

Logic for a young person who is still discovering the high level. At the same time last year, he chained the pawns in National 2 (19 games, 14 goals) after making the happiness of the U19 Monegasque. Noticed on the side of Brétigny, resident of the INF Clairefontaine but especially international U16, U18 and U19, he has recently moved into the upper age category. But the L1, and C1 by extension, is something else.

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Against Bruges, on the way out, he missed a golden opportunity that would have led to 2-0. After having resisted contact with the Belgian defender, perfectly dribbled Letica, he had crossed his left-foot shot in front of the empty goal. "I eliminate it but I should have taken my time and put it on the right foot", he explained afterwards, shared between the pride of having scored and the feeling of not having done the work to the end.

In great difficulty against Reims (1-0) where his pivot role has been complicated to face the defensive block Reims, he was replaced by Radamel Falcao, back from injury. What worry about his playing time in the coming weeks? An error regarding his badociation with the Tiger. Accustomed to playing arms with the opposing central, the Colombian has often allowed his attacking teammates to take space and depth. Where Sylla excels. What give ideas to Titi, he who enjoyed the game of support of Trezeguet or Anderson in its infancy?

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