Leader with Lazio and devastating coming off the bench with the France shirt. Matteo Guendouzi he is experiencing an extraordinary moment of form also certified by the second goal scored with the French national team, a goal which sealed the success of Deschamps’ men against Israel. Not only the second goal against France, immediately after the 3-1 the assist also arrived for the final 4-1 in Barcola. Guendouzi has regained his national team and now wants to be permanently back in Deschamps’ squad, who after taking him to Qatar for the World Cup kept him on the sidelines in subsequent squads. Thanks to his excellent performance with the Lazio shirt, the midfielder born in 1999 took France back and found the net again two years after his first international goal scored in a friendly against South Africa in 2022.
Baroni framed it tactically
It took him a few days Marco Baroni to find the right role for Guendouzi. After evaluating him in the first training sessions in the Auronzo di Cadore retreat using him as an attacking midfielder or midfielder, the Frenchman has permanently become one of the two midfielders in the 4-2-3-1 adopted by Baroni. “Guendo is a born midfielder, he comes to play the ball in the midfield and wants to touch a lot of balls. I want to exploit the characteristics of the players and go towards them, not stop at a tactical conviction.” This is Baroni’s thought on Guendouzi, who with Torino two weeks ago scored his first goal of the season on an assist from Tavares and yesterday in the national team scored a very similar goal, always coming in behind on an assist from the left back, in this case Theo Hernandez . They no longer want to stop Guendouzi, after having conquered the Lazio people he has taken back the national team and wants to become a cornerstone of Didier Deschamps too.