Mbappe vs. Molina, a duel of sprinters: What must the Argentine do to stop the fastest man in the World Cup?

“kylian mbappe it is a Formula One machine stuck in a football field”, Jorge Barraza perfectly described. He is the scorer of the Qatar 2022 World Cup together with the Argentine Lionel Messi (five goals in six games at the moment), but also the most fearsome due to his speed in the open field. Conclusion: the scariest for the final between France and Argentina.

According to FIFA metrics, to give a little dimension to the Frenchman: Usain Bolt, the fastest man in the world, runs at 42 km/h on average.

“Another 19 Ligue 1 teams [de Francia]and others in the Champions League are waiting for a solution.”said the French midfielder Youssouf Fofana to journalists when they asked him how to contain his partner.

about mbappe obviously it is not only supersonic speed, but also the ability with the ball. Clear example: the second goal of France against Morocco in the victory for the semifinals (2-0). Kylian played games with the ball in the Moroccan area, finished off and his shot deflected to reach the feet of Randal Kolo Muani, who scored his first World Cup goal 44 seconds after coming on.

He doesn’t have the skill to Pelenor the short driving of Leo Messibut mbappe23 years old, lives in a state of grace in Qatar. He is, with the permission of La Pulga and Antoine Griezmann, the best player in the World Cup. Determinant so do not put his name in the final marker. And it will surely be the name that lionel scaloni you will take more into account when planning the most important end of your life.

Nahuel Molina and an impossible mission?

Play with back four or three (which becomes five defenders), Nahuel Molina will be the man who will have the mission of marking kylian mbappe. It will be a duel on the right wing that could perhaps mark the path of the game.

But the Argentinian has an incredible record behind him, perhaps they didn’t have it that way much: against Croatia, achieved a speed of 34.9 kilometers per hourlittle less than what was achieved by the French against Poland. The sprint that surprised everyone was done in Julián Álvarez’s goal in which he puts a diagonal to mislead the rival defense and leave the way clear for the ‘Spider’.

The million dollar question is: how to stop the sprinter mbappe? England, in the quarterfinals, left in the air the “secret” to stop the Frenchman: put a player as fast as him on his back. Southgate put to Kyle Walker (34.4 km/h top speed in Qatar), from Manchester City, and managed to cancel it. The ’10 ′, who came as a scorer -he still holds up thanks to his five goals, but now with Messi- barely touched the ball 40 times and finished off only once on goal in regular time, according to data from SofaScore.

In the semifinals against Morocco it was practically the same. Coach Walid Regragui used an unprecedented line of five for them in the tournament but they had to reconsider their decision after Theo Hernández’s early goal and they returned to the four defenders. But he put achraf hakimi, Kylian’s friend, as the marker. Hakimi records a speed of 35.3 km/h and he managed to win the duel against his also teammate at PSG. In fact, according to SofaScore, ‘Kiki’ had his worst performance so far in the World Cup: Even so, he gave himself the morning to indirectly influence the goals. Because the cracks, the statistics do not even tickle.

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