{"id":1266410,"date":"2022-12-17T03:38:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T03:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/17\/world-cup-finalto-stop-messi-you-have-to-put-pressure-on-de-paul-saudi-arabia-coach-renard\/"},"modified":"2022-12-17T03:38:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T03:38:29","slug":"world-cup-finalto-stop-messi-you-have-to-put-pressure-on-de-paul-saudi-arabia-coach-renard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/17\/world-cup-finalto-stop-messi-you-have-to-put-pressure-on-de-paul-saudi-arabia-coach-renard\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Final:\u201cTo Stop Messi, You Have To Put Pressure On De Paul.\u201d- Saudi Arabia Coach Renard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Different sporting personalities have continued to react to the upcoming 2022 World Cup final on Sunday. Note that the focus of the game is on Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi, and how both coaches would be able to limit the influence of these two players. <\/p>\n<p>Photo: Lionel Messi || Twitter<\/p>\n<p>However, note that Herve Renard, who was Saudi Arabia\u2019s coach during their 2022 World Cup campaign, spoke about how Lionel Messi influences the game. In a recent interview, Herve Renard advised France to stop Lionel Messi from holding the ball very close to the goalpost. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/70797fc585ab4968a18819c8f2467cad\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);\">Photo: Herve Renard || Twitter <\/span><\/p>\n<p>In this recent interview, Saudi Arabia coach Herve Renard said, <strong>\u201cTo stop Messi, you have to put pressure on his most important link, De Paul. You must keep Messi 35-40 meters away from the goal and prevent him from holding the ball comfortably. France did it with Matuidi in 2018. Now he can do it with Rabiot and Tchouameni too.\u201d<\/strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/39d330c46f1b42f690c0730c978c08e0\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);\">Photo: Lionel Messi And Rodrigo De Paul || Twitter <\/span><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, recall that Herve Renard\u2019s Saudi Arabia team is currently the only team that has succeeded in beating Argentina at the 2022 World Cup, and the French Coach was able to limit Messi\u2019s influence. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/93d43eaee7bd45e8b6de4235091f3352\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: Twitter<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: KUNOYnews (via  Opera<br \/>News )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/><span class=\"see-more\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nKylian<br \/>Lionel Messi<br \/>Messi<br \/>Saudi Arabia<br \/>World Cup<br \/><\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Different sporting personalities have continued to react to the upcoming 2022 World Cup final on Sunday. Note that the focus of the game is on Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi, and how both coaches would be able to limit the influence of these two players. Photo: Lionel Messi || Twitter However, note that Herve Renard, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1266411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266410","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=1266410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}