Achraf Hakimi wants to be the executor of free kicks at PSG

DBasia.news – Achraf Hakimi showed off his free-kick skills with Morocco in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations. However, at Paris Saint-Germain, he did not achieve a set-piece.

Morocco was able to beat Malawi 2-1 at Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium, Yaounde, Cameroon in the 16th round of the 2021 African Cup of Nations, Wednesday (26/1/2022) morning WIB. Morocco had fallen behind first due to a goal from Gabadinho Mhango in the 7th minute.

The Lions of Atlas were able toequalize from Youssef En-Nesyri’s score in the last minute of the first half. Hakimi then emerged as the hero of Morocco’s victory thanks to his goal in the 70th minute.

The Paris Saint-Germain full-back’s goal came from a beautiful free kick from the right side of Malawi’s defence. This is not the first time Hakimi’s deadly free kick has scored a goal at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations.

Previously, Hakimi also scored from almost the same way and position when Morocco drew 2-2 with Gabon in the last match of the group stage. The 23-year-old player was unable to choose which was more beautiful, his goal against Malawi or Gabon.

However, he insisted that his goals against Malawi and Gabon were among the best goals of his career. Hakimi also revealed his ability to execute fruit balls from his hard training.

“The goal against Gabon was beautiful, the best of my career, but today I was lucky too, with one more goal. I don’t know which is more beautiful, I need to see it again, but both are difficult to score from that angle.” Achraf Hakimi quoted from ESPN.

“Sometimes I do this kind of thing in training, and it works, I can do it really well, so I’m happy when I can make a shot like this in a game after working hard,” he explained.

Even so, Hakimi did not have many opportunities to show off his ability to execute set pieces while defending PSG. This is because Lionel Messi, Neymar, Kylian Mbappe are the main executor of Les Parisiens’ free kicks. He will ask for a ‘ration’ of free kicks when he returns to Paris.

“In Paris, we have a lot of players who can take free-kicks. There’s Messi, Neymar, Mbappe, I tried, but it’s difficult. I’ll talk to them when I return to Paris. Right now I’m focused on the national team, but after that, we will see what happens in Paris,” Hakimi added.