{"id":1186322,"date":"2022-08-22T08:59:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T08:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/22\/french-ligue-1-team-of-the-week-3-djiku-featured-in-defence-mbappe-messi-and-neymar-in-attack\/"},"modified":"2022-08-22T08:59:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T08:59:10","slug":"french-ligue-1-team-of-the-week-3-djiku-featured-in-defence-mbappe-messi-and-neymar-in-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/22\/french-ligue-1-team-of-the-week-3-djiku-featured-in-defence-mbappe-messi-and-neymar-in-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"French Ligue 1 Team of the Week 3: Djiku Featured in Defence; Mbappe, Messi And Neymar in Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);\">Highest scored XI this week in France Ligue 1, Ghanaian defender Alexander Djiku was featured in the team of the week after a staggering performance against Stade de Reims that earned RC Strasbourg a point at home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/b1438fc0985448d0976725cc3f442f01\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);\">P<\/span>aris Saint-Germain trio -Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi also made it for the first this season following their best scoring form this week.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/f1c7c3d2ae614ca2959eb2550fcbdcbd\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The trio produced arguably the best attacker performance against Lille OSC &#8211; played like a team and kept their opponent&#8217;s defence very busy to sway away seven goals past them. Mbappe with the first hat-trick of the season, Neymar on board with a brace and hat-trick assists and Lionel Messi, a goal and an assist to record the best results.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ligue 1 Team of the Week after week- 3.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Goalkeeper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gianluigi Donnarumma (PSG)<\/p>\n<p>Of 10 shots on goal more, the Italian saved 8  7 inside the box more than any other shot-stopper this week, hence earning the goal spot.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/c0581eeafa2146b18a202ba41d112dd0\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/203651b3ea4f4d76940c07e21a9b0682\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Defenders<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alexander Djiku (Strasbourg), Achraf Dari (Stade Brestois) and Paul Joly (Auxerre)<\/p>\n<p>Djiku and Dari made the score sheet for their respective teams, Joly came up with the most tackles (8) this week and won a penalty to put his side an edge over Montpellier alongside the man of the match honour.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/940b5b8d5fa7414e8735f2183dea4f75\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/d0df28e3b54a44368ae2b54d1cf314ac\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Midfielders<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Achraf Hakimi (PSG), Seko Fofana (Lens), Branco Van den Boomen (Toulouse) and Tete (Lyon)<\/p>\n<p>Boomen emerged as the best midfielder this week. His statistics stood at 4 key passes, 6 shots on goal, 8 long balls, 6 crosses, 4 clearances, 4 tackles and pass accuracy of 80.7%.<\/p>\n<p>Hakimi also delivered with a goal and an assist samesies as Fofana against AS Monaco. Tete was Lyon&#8217;s revelation against Troyes &#8211; contributed three goals [2 goals and an assist].<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/7ee04390682d4b24bd9503c2b30e1983\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/0904fad11db04f7eb91223d5a5dd2cf0\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Forwards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Formed the best attacking trio &#8211; Neymar, Messi and Mbappe lead this week&#8217;s team.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: BerBea-nt (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nKylian Mbappe<br \/>\nLille OSC<br \/>\nLionel Messi<br \/>\nMessi<br \/>\nNeymar<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highest scored XI this week in France Ligue 1, Ghanaian defender Alexander Djiku was featured in the team of the week after a staggering performance against Stade de Reims that earned RC Strasbourg a point at home. Paris Saint-Germain trio -Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi also made it for the first this season following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1186323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1255,9913,717,5293,1769,11936,4155,2297,5394,97,602],"class_list":["post-1186322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-attack","tag-defence","tag-djiku","tag-featured","tag-french","tag-ligue","tag-mbappe","tag-messi","tag-neymar","tag-team","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}