Esteban Lepaul

He came off the bench.

And, uh, and the thing is that he was able, like, there, there are players which we, we had never seen, like Esteban Lepaul, um, from Stade Rennais had 90 minutes as center forward.

Um, we had, uh, he called Jean Boulez of, also from Como, uh, as, as, as a third keeper.

Lucas Da Cunha, who is the captain of Como, uh, had an absolutely fantastic game, um, as well in midfield.

Um, let's move on to another striker.

Talking about international football, uh, look, uh, probably, I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but maybe one of the surprise, um, call-ups to the French national team was Esteban Lepaul, uh, the Stade Rond striker.

He saw his market value increase by 10 million euros to 45 million euros.

Now, obviously they're not a club that a lot of people outside of France know...

Avec le ballon supplémentaire, il a confié le rôle offensif à Bradley Barkola.

Esteban Lepaul est désiré d'oué.

Tandis qu'il a un papé encore blessé à Madrid et resté sur le banc.

Après une première période dominée par les Français, mais sans compréhension, le match s'est animé dans les dernières minutes.

They've been blown away about how good he is.

And at the other end, Esteban Le Paul, who left the Lyon Academy when he was 20, had to go back to amateur football for a bit, played in third tier, played in the second tier, where he still couldn't get in the team for Angers, just going back a couple of years, and has now got to the point where he's top scoring in Ligue 1.

And I think to have someone So it's not all a la Clairefontaine is quite important.

To have some sort of worldliness to the squad, to have them coming from a few different places with different backgrounds, with different stories, with different motivations, I think that can maybe help to shake you out of complacency or any complacency that might exist.

There's a couple of really interesting names in here.

I've gotta say, the player I am the most pleased for of everyone in this France squad, Rennes striker, Esteban Lepaul.

Three years ago, Esteban Lepaul was playing for Épinal, I think it is, in the, in the Championship Nationale, the third tier of French football.

And he got picked up after a good season with them for Angers.

He got them, helped get them promoted, um, in the, his first season there, then had a brilliant season, you know, for them.

Adil Bouriquet has three.

Esteban Lepaul, also three.

Luis, sorry, yeah, Luis Muf- Mufuta, Mufata? Mufuta, I think Mufuta.

Uh, Marquinhos, bizarrely, Ernest Nuamah, Kasper Tengstedt, and Florian Thauvin all on three.

So I think it was a very bad performance from Rennes.

And then I'm also questioning the fact that Le Paul started from the bench getting into the game in the second half and both his team played in Europe a couple of days before.

Both teams knew that this was the last game ahead of the nation's teams getting kicked on.

Ren felt tired and didn't have any tools to combat Leon in this battle.

I think not enough creativity, not enough quality up front to, to create enough chances because I think the defense actually held on quite well against this Rennes team.

No, no goal from Lepaul.

Um, yeah, but I think more of the same really, and, uh, Angel Gomes there, uh, we've been impressed.

We were impressed when we saw him play against Strasbourg in the first match.

So there's a lot of space there.

um in behind those wing backs to get forward I think Lance will be looking at that and the other thing is I'm not sure without wishing to be disrespectful to anybody I don't think the three center backs whoever it is they pick there's actually competition there at Le Mans I don't think they're great as a unit um so far they have given up chances in all of their games actually and they've made one or two mistakes um Esteban Le Paul of Rennes who's a good striker has some joy against them when he faced them and um yeah i think you're right steve i think they do believe they need to score goals to stay up in this division um they've signed a striker who started the season really well in louis mafuta have lemon have a look at him if you're looking for player player picks he's done well and they've actually signed a pretty good number two striker behind him in habit diallo who is getting towards the end of his career now, but he's had a good time in League One in the past.

So I think that's the way they look at it.

I think they're going to be pretty bold.

Do we have any predictions there, Charlie?

I think that it's Le Paul and Rennes that will...

I mean, they will be the stronger one, but yeah, I think Ren will be a bit stronger.

I've given seven points in three matches now.