Kolo Muani said Dibu Martínez’s save “is suffocating” and explained what he would have to do to turn it into a goal

Randal Kolo Muani had the World Cup at his feet, the two-time world championship for the French team and the third conquest of that country. However, it was the left foot of the Dibu Martínez the one that got bigger and tipped the balance in Argentina’s favor.

There were only a few seconds to go and the 24-year-old striker took advantage of a botched calculation by Otamendi to go face to face with the goalkeeper, but he couldn’t. He failed and will regret it for life.

“In my head I said to myself: ‘Here, Randal, you have to shoot there’. I tried to finish at the near post, but the goalkeeper made a very nice save. I lost that duel”recalled the Eintracht Frankfurt striker in dialogue with the Catena Nice sport. He did what he thought he was going to do, but the Argentinian 1 scaled down brilliantly and reacted in time by extending his right leg like a handball goalkeeper.

“Then there were other solutions. I managed to pump, find Kylian (Mbappe, who appeared on his left), but I don’t see him in action. Watching the video, you discover the other possibilities,” he reflected.

“There’s nothing you can do. It’s already too late. I still choked on it and will have it for life, but this goal that I missed will give me more strength in the future”, he concluded.

“I will think about that opportunity for the rest of my life. It will become a part of me,” said Kolo Muani a month after the final.

With a great future ahead of him, the 24-year-old forward from Nantes and of Congolese ancestry knows that the game will be with him forever. “I have to move on with my life. All forwards have missed opportunities in their lives. I can’t lower my head. I have to keep it up and keep fighting,” he said.

Beyond his failed definition against Dibu Martínez, which was more due to the goalkeeper than his own inefficiency, Kolo Muani finished a great World Cup and returned to Germany to play in his team, erected as one of the figures of the Bundesliga.

“We wrote to him after the final saying he should be very proud of his year. He won the (French) Cup with Nantes the summer before, fought until his debut with Eintracht, reached the last 16 of the Champions League with us and became a World Cup finalist with his team. he. Really, you can’t do much more in a calendar year. That’s why he should be proud of what he’s achieved,” said his coach at Eintracht Frankfurt, Oliver Glasner.