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Moffi dreams Super outing against Mbappe’s PSG Sunday

 

Nigerian striker Terem Moffi is hoping to re-enact his super form when Monaco clash with PSG on Sunday.

The 21-year-old  has been the catalyst of Lorient’s remarkable recent revival.

Signed for a reported eight million euros ($9.7m) from Belgian club Kortrijk in October, Moffi scored on his Ligue 1 debut but didn’t score in any of his next nine games as Lorient struggled at the foot of the table. However, he has netted eight goals in nine games since then, helping the Brittany side climb out of the bottom three on a run of five matches unbeaten.

Moffi notably scored a late winner against PSG and a brace in last week’s 2-2 draw at Monaco. On Sunday he will be hoping to bring down Ligue 1 leaders Lille. It will however not be a tea party considering that PSG’s man of the moment Kylian Mbappe will be on parade for ligue 1 giants.  Mbappe has become the talk of town following his merciless demolition of Barcelona a few days ago.

Mbappe underlined why he is seen as a future Ballon d’Or winner with his midweek Champions League hat-trick for Paris Saint-Germain against Barcelona, but Sunday’s opponents Monaco hardly needed any warning about the threat posed by the electrifying striker.

Monaco head to the Parc des Princes not as lambs to the slaughter, but as rivals to PSG in the Ligue 1 title race, with five points currently separating the principality club in fourth place from the Parisians, who are second, one point behind leaders Lille.

Mbappe ready to face Monaco Sunday

Under Niko Kovac, Monaco are a force in France once again, four years after Mbappe’s sudden, stunning explosion onto the scene helped fuel their last title triumph.

Mbappe was stating his aim of one day winning the Ballon d’Or when he first signed for Monaco as a 14-year-old in 2013.

After turning 18, he scored six goals in six Champions League knockout games for the principality side in 2016/17 while also starring as they pipped PSG to the title.

Then he was off, with Monaco unable to turn down a 180 million-euro ($215m at the time) offer from Paris.

Three and a half years on, and his hat-trick against Barcelona took Mbappe onto 111 goals for PSG, making him already the club’s third-highest goal-scorer of all time, behind only Zlatan Ibrahimovic and his erstwhile teammate Edinson Cavani.

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PSG signed Mbappe, and Neymar, to conquer Europe, but in the wake of the Barcelona game the 22-year-old France World Cup-winner was eager to point out that his team could not afford to take their eye off the ball domestically.

“We are focused on our objectives and we have a very important match on Sunday in the league because we are not top and we have no margin for error,” Mbappe told broadcaster RMC Sport.

 

 

 

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