Randal Kolo Muani

2022 - 12 - 14

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France vs Morocco live: World Cup score, highlights, result from ... (Sporting News)

Defending World Cup champions France will hope to continue their repeat bid when they face a surprising Morocco side which has already gone further than any ...

2 hrs 40 mins from kickoff: France have broken a recent trend of defending champions not doing much in the way of defending their title. 1hr 15 mins from kickoff: And this is what the France team looks like. To redress the balance, here's Sofiane Boufal dancing with his mum. 1st minute: The game is underway. Mbappe cutting in from the left on this occasion. The attack stays alive and Giroud really should have his fifth of the competition as he shoots wide. He's down the France right now, does some stepovers but sends his cross into the side netting from a good position. His effort is half-blocked but it falls to Kolo Muani to tap home at the back post. The ball breaks on Azzedine Ounahi and his shot skids through the crowd to be blocked on the line by Jules Kounde. Didier Deschamps can become the first coach in history to win the World Cup twice. Bono (GK) — 2. The Paris Saint-Germain star had his first effort blocked and a second looped up off Oliver Giroud, with Hernandez alive to the possibilities as he found an acrobatic finish.

Who is Randal Kolo Muani? (The Athletic)

Randal Kolo Muani scored his first international goal against Morocco on Wednesday to essentially confirm France's place in the final of the World Cup.

He is also able to stick a foot frequently and make his fair share of defensive actions (disrupting opposition moves, 73 out of 99) to steal the ball back. Chief scout Ben Manga, now Frankfurt’s director for professional football, first approached the player in 2020, during his first season at top-flight level. He also has the intelligence to find others running into space, having already surpassed his previous career-high four assists this season, with nine in his 14 Bundesliga appearances. After a reasonably successful stint on loan at third-division Boulogne, Kolo Muani returned to Nantes and had a breakthrough in the 2020-21 season, scoring nine goals (and making as many assists) in 37 matches. MARAM ALBAHARNA: As a striker, Kolo Muani is a prolific goalscorer and an effortless creative link in his side’s attack. After playing for local clubs Tremblay-en-France and Torcy, Nantes snapped him up at the age of 16.

Randal Kolo Muani's first touch in the 2022 World Cup semifinal was ... (USA TODAY)

Kolo Muani — who plays club soccer for Eintracht Frankfurt of the German Bundesliga — was alert on the back post and converted with his first touch of the game, ...

Kolo Muani was making just his fourth France appearance, and second of the World Cup. Within 44 seconds, Kolo Muani had scored the goal that clinched the game and put France into the final. [France would go on to win the match 2-0](https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/nancy-armour/2022/12/14/france-morocco-world-cup-semifinal/10897473002/) and [will face Argentina in the final on Sunday](https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/worldcup/2022/12/14/world-cup-final-argentina-france-schedule-time-lionel-messi/10895491002/).

Who is Randal Kolo Muani? Liverpool and Tottenham target profiled ... (HITC)

Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur target Randal Kolo Muani is attracting headlines tonight after sending France to the World Cup final.

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Mbappe dazzles en route to Kolo Muani's first-ever World Cup goal (SBS)

Kylian Mbappe dazzled the Morocco defenders before his deflected strike was tapped in by Randal Kolo Muani, who scored his first-ever goal at a World Cup.

Randal Kolo Muani on World Cup semi-final goal: “It's magical ... (Get French Football News)

The former Nantes man then found the net, scoring after a second half that had been dominated by Morocco until then and booking France's place in the final. “ ...

France have advanced to their fourth final since 1998, with manager Didier Deschamps having been involved in three of those, as captain and then as manager. We have to give ourselves the means to go all the way. The Eintracht Frankfurt man was brought on for Ousmane Dembélé and finished from close range after some nice work from Kylian Mbappé in the penalty area in some tight space, finding his fellow Bondy native with a deflected shot.