With a double of assists, Captain Wiss' is your MVP against Lorient!

With two assists in the team's win over Les Merlus, the captain of the Rouge et Blanc was elected MVP of the match on the AS Monaco App.

Published on 17/04/2023 at 16:46

Reading time: 5 min.

Our captain is not only a goalscorer, he also knows how to be decisive with a pass! He proved it again during the win over Lorient this Sunday (3-1), by doing so twice. The first wsa following a high recovery, from which Wissam Ben Yedder moved forward with the ball at his foot to play a fine pass into the feet of Aleksandr Golovin to double the lead (2-0, 28').

Yedderland is back!

Then we found him in action again at the start of the second half with a pass from the Tsar, for a perfect lay-off for Kevin Volland. The latter needed no urging to send a ball into Vito Mannone's top corner (3-0, 55')! Gorgeous...

Kevin has always been an important player, although he has had a lot of bad luck this season with knocks. He is an experienced playerwho knows how to do things well for the collective and who is a good scorer as he showed today.

Philippe Clement

An impressive consistency

The statistical trend therefore extends a little further after this weekend's performance. With 17 goals and now six assists in 27 Ligue 1 games, the French striker has not lost his finishing. With 181 goals to his name, he is currently the fourth best French scorer among the five major leagues in the last 30 years, behind only Karim Benzema (276), Thierry Henry (233) and David Trezeguet (187)!

I am very happy for him and at the same time for the team, because it also values our good collective work, which allows him to create a good number of chances match after match. Wissam has exceptional quality to his finishing.

Philippe Clement

Better yet, our serial scorer is the third-best scorer for the same club in the 21st century. He appears twice in this table: with 80 goals inRouge et Blancjersey in third place and also in sixth place with Toulouse (63 goals).

A 15th MVP of the season

These two brilliant passes in any case allowed the number 10 of theRouge et Blancto be voted MVP of the match on the AS Monaco App, for the fifteenth time this season. With 51% of the votes, he was ahead of second scorer Aleksandr Golovin (29%) and Kevin Volland (11%). Congratulations Wissam! 🇲🇨

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2022-2023 MVP Recap

Second half:

Ligue 1 – Matchday 20: Olympique de Marseille 1-1 AS Monaco: Aleksandr Golovin (5)

Ligue 1 – Matchday 21: AS Monaco 3-2 AJ Auxerre: Eliesse Ben Seghir (2)

Ligue 1 - Matchday 22: Clermont Foot 63 2-0 AS Monaco: Breel Embolo (5)

Ligue 1 - Matchday 23 : AS Monaco 3-1 Paris Saint-Germain: Wissam Ben Yedder (10)

Europa League - Round of 32 First Leg: Bayer Leverkusen 2-3 AS Monaco: Axel Disasi (2)

Ligue 1 - Matchday 24: Stade Brestois 1-2 AS Monaco: Aleksandr Golovin (6)

Europa - Round of 32 Second Leg: AS Monaco 2-3 (3-5 penalties) Bayer Leverkusen: Wissam Ben Yedder (11)

Ligue 1 - Matchday 25: AS Monaco 0-3 OGC Nice: Eliesse Ben Seghir (3)

Ligue 1 - Matchday 26: ESTAC Troyes 2-2 AS Monaco: Wissam Ben Yedder ( 12)

Ligue 1 - Matchday 27: AS Monaco 0-1 Stade de Reims: Wissam Ben Yedder (13)

Ligue 1 - Matchday 28: AC Ajaccio 0-2 AS Monaco: Wissam Ben Yedder (14)

Ligue 1 - Matchday 29: AS Monaco 4-3 RC Strasbourg: Eliesse Ben Seghir (4)

Ligue 1 - Matchday 30: FC Nantes 2-2 AS Monaco: Axel Disasi (3)

Ligue 1 - Matchday 31: AS Monaco 3-1 FC Lorient: Wissam Ben Yedder (15)