Guillermo Maripán celebrates 100 games for Monaco with a goal

The national defender reaches the hundred presentations with the team of the Principality. This Sunday, he converted into a 2-1 victory against Olympique de Lyon, in a championship led by PSG and Marseille.

Guillaume Maripan He is a player who can have very exceptional days and others less so. This Sunday he had one of the first. In a special game the Chilean defender converted for Monaco to win 2-1 against Olympique de Lyon, thus closing the seventh day of Ligue 1.

The reason for the peculiarity of the meeting was that Maripán played 100 games with the principality team, which he arrived from Alavés in Spain. The distribution of its hundred presentations indicates that 79 correspond to the French championship, 10 to other local tournaments (between the Coupe de France and the Coupe de la Ligue) and the remaining 11 are from European cups (Champions and Europa League ). To be a central defender, he has the not insignificant sum of 11 goals.

Regarding the match against OL, all the emotions passed in the second half. In the 55th minute, Benoit Badiashile opened the account for the Monegasques. Then, at minute 63, came Maripán’s goal, for the 2-0. In both goals, Caio Henrique participated by assisting. The visit found a discount at 81′, thanks to Karl Toko Ekambi. The victory was necessary in Monaco, not to come off the top of the table.

The Catholic University alum spoke after the game. “I’m very happy. A hundred games here, I never thought about it. I’m very happy to be here, it’s a big club and we’re going to play a hundred more games,” he said. -he declares. “It was a difficult match, they played very well, they have a lot of quality, so we are happy with the victory,” he added.

After seven days Monaco is in seventh place, with 11 points (three wins, two draws and two losses), in the same line as Rennes. Next Thursday he has a new match for the group stage of the Europa League. It will welcome Ferencvaros from Hungary.

Ligue 1 has two pointers. One is the PSG of Messi, Neymar and Mbappé, the super candidate to retain the crown. The other is Olympique de Marseille, who beat Lille on Saturday, thanks to a goal from Alexis Sánchez. The Parisians and OM have 19 units out of 21 possible. Tocopillano’s team is called upon to be the main competitor to overthrow the hegemony of millionaire Paris Saint-Germain.

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Source: Latercera

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